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ON THE RUN Another week, another good-hearted soul running the London Marathon for a great cause. Universal/UMTV marketing exec Rebecca Bernard, pictured here with friend Roxanne, is trekking her way around the 26- mile course to raise funds for Clic Sargent – the charity for children and young people dealing with cancer. “We have personally seen how much help they have been to our little friend Leila through her treatment for leukaemia which was diagnosed at only two and a half years old,” said the duo. To donate, visit: justgiving.com/RRMarathonRun


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BACK OF THE NET The annual Football Extravaganza dinner took place at Grosvenor House last week, raising £357,000 for Nordoff Robbins. As usual, the event’s auction was hosted by Nick Stewart. It saw the Fiat 500 which José Mourinho bought at last year’s FE for £18,000 (which he donated back this year) sell for a further £16,000 - bought by Jill McLeish (Scottish manager Alex’s wife), after she out-bid Frank Lampard. Elsewhere, a night out with the talkSPORT pundits went for £11,000 while a three-hour training session with Alan Shearer sold for £10,000. Music industry reps from sponsors including PPL, Universal and EMI were in attendance. Pictured L-R: Chris Panayi (of C.C.Panayi & Co LLP, accountants and business advisors), Fran Nevrkla (chairman, PPL), Jonathan Dickins (manager, Adele), Peter Leathem (CEO of PPL) and Brian McLaughlin (who has organised every FE night since it started 17 years ago).


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liberty records Founded 1955 Key Artists Julie London, David Seville and The Chipmunks, Bobby Vee


Founded by record exec Alvin Bennet, producer Simon Waronker and engineer Theodore Keep, Liberty Records got off to a shaky start. While its first big hit came in 1955 with Julie London’s Cry Me A River, Liberty was facing bankruptcy by 1958, having had only one million selling record with Hoagy Carmichael’s 1927 song Stardust, which stayed in the pop charts for 24 weeks in 1957. With Liberty in a dire state, Ross Bagdasarian Sr convinced the founding


trio to press singles of a track called The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late). The Chipmunk characters themselves were, of course, named after Bennet, Waronker and Keep while Bagdasarian was better known by his stage name David Seville. The first Chipmunks track was Liberty’s saving grace, selling 4.5 million


copies. The label would go on to establish a roster including Bobby Vee, Johnny Burnette, Gary Lewis and The Playboys and Sugarloaf in the Sixties and Seventies. Liberty was bought by Transamerica Corporation and combined with United Artists in 1969, which was subsequently bought by EMI ten years later. EMI revived the Liberty name in 1980.


Did You Know Ross Bagdasarian Sr actually voiced all three of The Chipmunks by speeding up audio tracks on recordings.


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