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| Date: 11/05/2024 Section: Rumor Mill With a little help from Mark Ronson and Paloma Faith, Sony U.K. Chairman and CEO Jason Iley was honored at the Music Industry Trusts ceremony in London 11/4 in recognition of his three-decade career in music. Jason Iley, Music Industry Trusts, Sony U.K., Mark Ronson, Paloma Faith |
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| Date: 07/12/2023 Section: Rumor Mill Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel performed for upward of 70,000 people last week as part of the BST Hyde Park concert series. Hyde Park, BTS Hyde Park, Jim King, AEG Presents, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Joe Jonas |
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| Date: 09/08/2022 Section: Rumor Mill Queen Elizabeth II, England’s longest-serving monarch, has died at her beloved Balmoral Castle. She was 96. Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles, The Beatles, Winston Churchill, Liz Truss, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Elton John, Rod Stewart |
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| Date: 06/23/2021 Section: Rumor Mill More than 200 artists have joined the #LetTheMusicMove campaign to push for a reduction in the Brexit-related costs and red tape faced by U.K. musicians and businesses planning tours in the EU. Wolf Alice, Annie Lennox and Radiohead are among those lending their support. LetTheMusicMove, Brexit, tours, Wolf Alice, Annie Lennox, Radiohead |
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| Date: 06/07/2021 Section: Blighty Beat The Rolling Stones have joined the campaign to increase revenues from streaming to musicians in the U.K., adding their names to a letter for the Prime Minister that has so far received a non-committal response. The Stones join Tom Jones, the Bee Gees’ Barry Gibb, Emeli Sandé, the estat... |
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| Date: 06/07/2021 Section: Rumor Mill The Rolling Stones have joined the campaign to increase revenues from streaming to musicians in the U.K., adding their names to a letter to the Prime Minister that has so far received only a noncommittal response. The Rolling Stones, Tom Jones, Barry Gibb, Emeli Sandé, Boris Johnson |
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| Date: 04/20/2021 Section: Blighty Beat More than 150 British musicians are calling on the Prime Minister to update U.K. copyright law to increase revenues to creators from streaming. Annie Lennox, Paul McCartney, Bob Geldof, Lily Allen, Chris Martin and Kate Bush are among names backing the campaign. In an open letter, the signatories a... |
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| Date: 04/20/2021 Section: Rumor Mill More than 150 British musicians are calling on the Prime Minister to update U.K. copyright law to increase revenues from streaming to creators. Annie Lennox, Paul McCartney, Bob Geldof, Lily Allen, Chris Martin and Kate Bush are among the names backing the campaign. Annie Lennox, Paul McCartney, Bob Geldof, Lily Allen, Chris Martin, Kate Bush, Copyrights |
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| Date: 06/05/2020 Section: Rumor Mill Renowned producer and artist Rupert Hine died on 6/4 following a long battle with cancer. He was 72. The news comes from his old friend Kenny MacPherson, who learned the sad news from Hine's wife. “Rupert Hine left us today,” Kenny wrote on Instagram late Thursday. “Heaven Wins Again. Such a beautiful talented kind spirit. I will continue to love and now miss you.” |
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| Date: 03/18/2020 Section: Rumor Mill Since Glastonbury, the U.K.'s premiere music fest, has been postponed until 2021, we thought we'd take a look at some of its 50-year history. The concert was first held in September 1970, on the day after Jimi Hendrix died... |
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| Date: 12/26/2018 Section: Rumor Mill Sir Lucian Grainge’s willingness to take risks and draw on his decades of music-business experience—combined with his great instincts—encouraged him to lead rights holders into the streaming revolution. |
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| Date: 10/08/2018 Section: Blighty Beat Bob Geldof has penned an open letter to the U.K.’s Prime Minister Theresa May—who is currently negotiating a Brexit deal with the European Commission—laying out the high cost of an exit from the EU for musicians and urging a rethink. Ed Sheeran, Rita Ora, Damon Albarn, Jarvis Cock... |
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| Date: 10/08/2018 Section: Rumor Mill Bob Geldof has penned an open letter to the U.K.’s Prime Minister Theresa May—who is currently negotiating a Brexit deal with the European Commission—laying out the high cost of an exit from the EU for musicians and urging a rethink. |
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| Date: 07/09/2018 Section: Rumor Mill Beyonce, Jay-Z, Ed Sheeran, Eddie Vedder and others will celebrate the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela at the Global Citizen Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa, in December. |
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| Date: 06/12/2017 Section: Rumor Mill Nigel Grainge, the founder of Ensign Records who signed and developed Sinead O'Connor, The Boomtown Rats, Thin Lizzy and many others, died Sunday in Santa Monica of complications from recent surgery. He was 70. |
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| Date: 11/26/2012 Section: Rumor Mill FRANK BARSALONA, 74, the pioneering music agent whose Premier Talent agency revolutionized the rock concert business, died last Thursday (11/22) after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. Barsalona began his career at N.Y. talent agency GAC, where he booked the first U.S. appearances by th... |
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| Date: 03/21/2011 Section: Rumor Mill While there were no shortages of buzz bands playing eight to 10 times at SXSW, one of this year’s more tireless performers was one of its most undersung. Having made one of the greatest Texas albums of all timeThe Texas-Jerusalem Crossroadsa decade ago with his band Lift to Experience, Josh T... |
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| Date: 03/18/2011 Section: Rumor Mill “I’m getting old,” I told my wife on the phone. “I’ve never been this tired on Thursday before.” My wife, who is exactly the same age as I am, resisted that premise intuitively and said something like, “Well, it’s the kids.” “But the kids a... |
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| Date: 03/18/2011 Section: Rumor Mill THE FINE ART OF RESURFACING: Here are some highlights from Bob Geldof’s keynote speech at SXSW on the morning of St. Patrick’s Day, fittingly enough: The onetime Boomtown Rats frontman and Live Aid organizer bemoaned the lack of any wider relevance or social impact, as in the days o... |
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| Date: 03/14/2011 Section: Rumor Mill After a year’s break, it’s endlessly refreshing to once again be in the thick of the stack of schedules, grids and notes that is the SXSW battle plan. For most people who find a calling in the music business, life in music is full immersion and SXSW is itself a higher degree of full imme... |
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| Date: 01/12/2011 Section: Rumor Mill SXSW TAPS A RAT: Live Aid founder and Boomtown Rats vocalist Bob Geldof will be the keynote speaker and showcase performer at this year’s 25th anniversary SXSW. He’ll bring his band to play music from his new album, How to Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell. In a perfect bit of synchr... |
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| Date: 07/14/2006 Section: Rumor Mill TRAKIN CARE OF BUSINESS1. Tom Petty, Highway Companion (American/WB): This is certainly a mature album, one that looks back wistfully, sorrowfully, but without regret, at a life lived on the road, where he’s “losing his treads,” as Tom Petty puts it on songs like “Night Drive... |
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| Date: 05/31/2005 Section: Rumor Mill Bob Geldof has announced Live8, a series of megaconcerts to take place simultaneously on July 2 in Philadelphia, London, Paris, Berlin and Rome, with the stated goal of putting pressure on members of the G8 to do something about third-world poverty at their upcoming summit. The event, which comes so... |
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| Byline: Roy Trakin Date: 04/17/2003 Section: Rumor Mill Koch Entertainment President Bob Frank has been with the label since June, 1999, when he coordinated the deal with Walter Yetnikoff’s Velvel Music Group that created the company. Before joining the music legend’s label as President in 1997, the 37-year-old music biz veteran spent eight y... |
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| Byline: Marc Pollack Date: 12/19/2000 Section: Rumor Mill WHAT'S UP, TIGER LILY?Rocker and Live Aid organizer Bob Geldof has been awarded custody of the orphaned daughter of his former wife, Paula Yates, and INXS singer Michael Hutchence. Britain's High Court Monday (12/18) granted Geldof custody of 4-year-old Tiger Lily for a year so she could liv... |
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| Byline: Marc Pollack Date: 10/09/2000 Section: Rumor Mill BUSTA BUSTEDRapper Busta Rhymes was sentenced to five years' probation Friday (10/6) in Manhattan Supreme Court after pleading guilty to a gun possession charge that occurred in May 1999. The previously agreed-upon settlement stems from an incident in December 1998 when Rhymes, with manager Gera... |
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| Date: 09/20/2000 Section: Rumor Mill ONLY MARVIN COULD MAKE SECURITIZATION SEXYDavid Pullman, creator of Pullman Bonds, announced his exclusive signing with the Marvin Gaye estate for a music royalty securitization deal. For the Pullman Group, it is the first ever entertainment securitization of estate assets by any party. This deal is... |
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| Byline: Marc Pollack Date: 09/18/2000 Section: Rumor Mill WE WERE THINKING MORE ALONG THE LINES OF NO. 2Slipknot has canceled its fall headlining tour because of exhaustion, just a few days after the trek was announced. The band's constant road schedule has reportedly taken its toll on at least one of the band's masked players. A Slipknot member r... |
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