Yudu - Music Week June 22 2012

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Been snapped with the Bay City Rollers on your iPhone? Got photographic proof of your promotions chief slaying the karaoke machine? Swimming the Bristol Channel for charity and want the industry to rally round? Tell us all about it. And we’ll tell everyone else. Send your out-of-hours snaps and stories to runoffgroove@intentmedia.co.uk

THREE LIONS At the time of going to press, England are still in Euro 2012. So don't blame us for any misplaced optimism in these pages. Nice to see that Atlantic's promotions team are backing our boys with equal verve – holding a football party to herald the tournament's kick-off last week. Greg James from R1 and Atlantic's Phil Youngman DJ'd, a David Beckham lookalike greeted guests and Soho burger bar Meat Liquor provided the BBQ. [L-R] Katie Crisp, Greg James (Radio 1), Damian Christian, Phil Youngman, Deirdre Moran

KEY SONGS IN THE LIFE OF...

TONY WADSWORTH Chairman, BPI

First record you remember buying? It was The Who Live at Leeds, in 1970 – a beautiful package containing facsimiles of old invoices for broken amps and guitars, etc... I played it to death.

Last track you downloaded? This week the Sonos is hammering Bobby Womack, The Bravest Man in the Universe; Father John Misty, Funtimes in Babylon and Beth Jeans Houghton, Sweet Tooth Bird.

AN ACT OF FAITH Sony Music hosted an address with the CBI last week at its Kensington HQ, where Paloma Faith gave an impressive turn in front of assembled dignitaries and press. Sony UK chairman & CEO Nick Gatfield proudly told the assembled group that boy band One Direction would represent a $100m business by next year, and had already created 90 jobs. Are you listening, Mr Cameron? [L-R] Nick Gatfield, Paloma Faith, and Katja Hall, Head of Policy at CBI.

ARCHIVE MUSIC WEEK June 22, 2002

Bertelsmann was last week forced to acquire Zomba after the music group’s founder Clive Calder (pictured) decided to exercise a long- standing “put” option. And Music Week says that Bertelsmann could be pushed to do the same with Clive Davis’ J Records thanks to a similar clause… BPI chairman Rob Dickins’ contribution to the music business saw him take home a CBE in the

Queen’s 2002 birthday honours. He’s in good company with Mick Jagger also among the names… In related news, the BPI has established a six-man ‘Super Council’ to review its chairman role with Dickins set to step down at next month’s AGM… Ministry of Sound has confirmed a North American licensing deal with MCA. It will see the indie significantly recoup its outlay on Fischerspooner… And Liam Gallagher has signed his first long-term publishing deal with Universal Music Publishing as Oasis prepare to release their fifth studio album Heathen Chemistry.

NEW RELEASES RECOMMENDED 22.06.02

THE PRODIGY Baby’s Got A Temper OASIS Heathen Chemistry The Prodigy’s Baby’s Got A Temper scores the Single Of The Week accolade this time around with Music Week tipping it to “surf the nu-metal zeitgeist and reach

a fresh audience”. Meanwhile, Oasis’ Heathen Chemistry picks up Album Of

The Week as the first significant new offering from the band since the arrival of Gem and Andy Bell. The group is “considerably more musically adept than on previous material” according to the mag.

SINGLES TOP 5 22.06.02 POS ARTIST

SINGLE 1 ELVIS VS. JXL

A Little Less Conversation

2 KYLIE MINOGUE Love At First Sight 3 SOPHIE

ELLIS-BEXTOR 4 CHAD KROEGER/ JOSEY SCOTT 5 EMINEM Hero Without Me

Get Over You/Move This Mountain

Which track would you like played at your funeral? Pomps and Pride, Toots and the Maytals. I think it’s one of the most joyful songs I know. It might revive me...

What’s your karaoke speciality? Revolution No.9 should do it. My other speciality is avoiding karaoke.

Which song was the first dance at your wedding?

ALBUMS TOP 5 22.06.02 POS ARTIST

ALBUM 1 EMINEM 2 QUEEN The Eminem Show Greatest Hits I II & III

3 RONAN KEATING Destination 4 KORN

5 DAVID BOWIE Heathen

It’s 25 years ago but I seem to recall it was Dancing In The Street by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas (above).

Recommend a track Music Week readers may not have heard. Joe Henry’s You Can’t Fail Me Now sung by Bonnie Raitt.

What’s your favourite single/ track of all time? Tumbling Dice, The Rolling Stones. The best intro EVER; indecipherable lyrics and The Stones at their peak – I never tire of hearing it.