4 RI pledge 6 IRightPrice 10 Pigswilifly 25 [ BBC radio chief 5 Our Price stores Green Jelly i!l sharpenn revamp focus to chartsingle success set for H iinsfflÊ week For Everyone in the Business of Music 29 MAY 1993 £2.65 Ensign rocked by exodus isEnsign shopping founder for aNigel new dealGrainge fol- eddiscussions parties. with two interest- EnsignTheir anddeparture its acts cornes from 18 differently,""The really he painful says. part for EnsignChrysalis had seven deals yearswith RCAago, lastlowing week his from surprise the label departure he has GraingeOver theand past Hill havetwo décadesbecome EMI'smonths takeover after the of completion Chrysalis. of artists,us is stepping especially away Sinead from andthe andthrough Island. Phonogram. It was launched runGrainge, for the pastA&R 17 years.manager respectedone of the A&R UK's teams. most Grainge highly EnsignGrainge has hadstresses a "broad-based that WorldGrainge, Party," Hill he adds.and Loader includesEnsign's Boo current Hewerdine, roster Bluealso erChris Doreen Hill Loaderand général left the manag- label Thinhas signed Lizzy andacts the ranging Boomtown from A&Rwith influence"Chrysalis, during where its it tiraehas comprisedstaff. No new Ensign's executives entire have Marie.Aéroplanes The label'sand Bufïystrongest St on Friday. Grainge, who sold Rats to Sinead O'Connor and retained its own office. "But yet been named to take over at EMIchart takeover. success came before the Ensign1986, is to nowChrysalis thought Records to bein edgedWorld Party.as one Hill of isthe acknowl- people thenow EMI the companyumbrella cornes we're underone of sidethe label, other which Chrysalis will sitiraprints along- Chrysalis managing director seeking a new label deal, possi- responsible for breaking black several A&R sources, predorai- suchCompulsion. as Cooltempo and leavesRoy Eldridge with our says,blessing "Nigel and blyHe iswith understood a US-based to havecompany. had Seventiesmusic in andthe Eighties. UK in the thereforenantly focused the rôle on thehas UK, evolved and Before linking with best wishes." Michael lawyerturnsstarwitness Tony Russell, George Michael's Russell says he has stood Report rapsPRS staff lawyer for the past 10 years, - down since the circumstances hiswill forthcoming not represent action the singer against in Michael'ssurrounding contract the issigning one of theof Senior PRS managers have that the project should have The document states that starSony witness as he will in the be case.called as a havemain aareas différent of contention. view as to how"We beenthe Proms blasted debacle for their which rôle saw in been1990 afterreviewed less thanin December f3m had requestedprogress reportsby the PRSinto CouncilProms Russell, the man who helped the agreement came to be £8m of members' money wast- been spent. Instead a further in 1992 were misleading. contractMichael escapewith hisInnervision Wham! negotiated,"The move heis says.the latest step computered on introducing membership the ill-fatedSystem. £8mThis was is "spent équivalent unnecessarily". to £320 the"[Those CounciTs concerned] attempts resisted to gain Records in 1984, will be in Michael's préparation for The summary of the report per member, since the society an independent assessment of partnerreplaced Cyril by Sheridans Classer. senior tradehis landmark case, set for restraintOctober. of membersinto Proms last distributed week accuses to PRS hadend of25,000 1991. membersPRS distributed at the ry.the "And project," when says such the an summa- assess- unnamedwork, failing senior to control staff theof poorPro- £107mated societies to members in thatand affili-year, resistedment wasthe subséquentobtained theysus- ject800161/3 team council and misleading over the sys-the administrationaccording to its accounts,and licensing while pensionThe matter of the willproject." be discussed tem'sThe progress. independent report says samecosts period.totalled £26m in the at a meeting for PRS members Wright picks label boss Chris Wright's Chrysalis toGroup launching has moved its new a step label nearer with ketingthe appointment chief Jason of Guy A&M as mar- UK managingGuy, 32, director.takes up the job on JulyLewis, 19. who He willjoined report Chrysalis's to Steve November. enoughLewis to says, be an "[Guy] enthusiast is young but The Wright stuff: (from left) Wright, Guy and Lewis andhas respectgained ain lot the of industry." experience 1994," says Lewis. ing in 1987. Two years later he Lewis and Guy will work heldIn distributionthe early Eighties posts at now-Guy switchedsame post, to Chrysalisbefore rejoining in the appointingtogether ona UKsigning distributor acts, defunct film company Palace A&M in 1991. licensingand setting deals up for international the label. Gold,Pictures the videoand venture.Palace Virgin theGuy new says, "1Chrysalis was attracted label to released"Our first in therecord early should part beof wasIn appointed1985 he joined head ofA&M market- and notbecause swamped it will by marketing.be music-led, " WHY CHANGE A WINNING FORMULA? DINO ENTERTAINMENT and FUNNACLE SALES & DISTRIBUTION PROVING THAT INDEPENDENCE WORKS! L ITKlBijfPflï MillBLMid ' -«Si k.- ' ■ ■ -J r y. tNIERTAINMFKlTéhb 1 OUT NOW OUT SOON NEWS DESK: 071-921 5990 NEWS COMMENT EMI slams Panorama jobs slur madeEMI hasin the hit BBC's back Panoramaat claims againstthey have unfair worked dismissalfor a Compa- if employmentlast summer becauseterminating she washer preliminaryIndia for "several industrial months". tri- t programmesion sacks casual that itsstaff CD before divi- nyThe continuously programme, for twobroadcast years. versarynearing andher there second were i bunalEMI found Music's in faveur senior of EMI. vice % vicethey tocomplété avoid redundancy two years' pay-ser- staffon May members 17, spoke and to featured five former an The woman claimed she had présidentcompany's Peter casual Knee staff says are tthe ' ' Under the Employraent Pro- industrialemployée whotribunal took EMIclaiming to an nyalready for workedtwo years, for thebut Compa- EMI panywhen theycannot start guarantee that the coe temporarytection Consultation staff are entitled Act 1978, to missedshe had just been five unfairly days before dis- refusedcompensation, to pay any saying redundancy the wo- gestionslength of service.that casual "1 réfuté workers sug- thefull-time same redundancystaff and can terms claim as reachingEMI wrote two years' to the service. woman ouslyman had because not worked she wentcontinu- to are used as slave labour," he Tfiascohe PRS of report its new on Proms the computermake depressing System readingwill Donington for the society's songwriter andIt confirmspublisher that members. £8m of axed as Levy pulls M&G the £llm spent on the completelyproject has wasted.been That's dates clash annualéquivalent cost to of a running third of thethe Theat Donington Monsters ofhas Rock been concert can- toentire the point,opération £320 or, for more every bandscelled followingto move demandsthe event from to out of PolyGram membercompany of and the individual society. raitments.accommodate their tour com- councilThe report of any clears direct the blâme ouncedPromoters last weekAiracarve that ann-the Magnetael Levy Records has bought founder his Mich- joint manyfor the members Proms disaster. may But Augustevent Bankhad Holidaybeen scrappedweekend venturePolyGram. M&G label out of représentativeswonder why their did elected not get becausebill to match it could the not standard assemble of a ty Levystake has in the sold label a 49% to brotherminori- toThey grips may with well it earlier. have been previousSpokesman years. Paul Flower and Jacksister Dimenstein partnership who Sarah run information,acting on inaccurate but is it not ticalsays itreasons. was cancelled "Bands for wanted logis- Switzerland'sand video distributor, largest Music-music theirensure responsibility they are fully to to play at différent times of the vertrieb. informed?It is this relationship year,with butother we eventsshare Doningtonand our distributePolyGram M&G will product continue in the to between executive and weekend is very much carved UK, but Levy is seeking to attentioncouncil which as the needs PRS mosttries in Hestone," dismisses he says. claims that the panieslicense inthe overseas label to territories. other com- to ensure that nothing like event has suffered from the "My philosophy with Magnet happenthe Proms again. affair can ever certsgrowth such of asother Glastonbury outdoor con-and UKwas andto be then independent work with in the Levy (l) and Dimenstein: 'building M&G Mo i the Mean Fiddler's Reading people who most wanted to with the success achieved by while the séparation from Gwagingeorge Michael a very is andMonsters Phoenix offestivals. Rock has been world.handle Andour product that's whataround we're the theopened 50-50 with jointLevy inventure July 1990. it ofPolyGram shares toand the the Dimensteins sale of 49% successful PR campaign held annually at the Don- going to do again," says Levy, Meanwhile Levy is not expectswere finalised.to release fiveBut albumsLevy escapeahead of his his deal court with case Sony. to ington1980. The Racing only Circuitother time since it Musicwho sold in 1988. Magnet to Warner withthought the to supporthave been given happy by before the end of the year. New PR angles have has been cancelled was three "My ambition is to build PolyGram. soldLike their Levy previous the Dimensteins company, regularbeen dribbled intervais, out at yearsdent at ago the following 1989 event. a fatal acci- dentM&G