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of them don’t know what they’ve got. “I remember talking to one company and saying
‘It’s about time we did a TV-marketed album on this person because we’re about to do his 50th anniversary tour.’ They said ‘Well, who’s got the catalogue?’ and I said, ‘You’ve got the catalogue!’ “We went further than that and, in the last three
or four years, we’ve actually been able to license the brands that we’ve built back to the record company,” adds Nicol. “Universal for instance took The Solid Silver 60s Show brand and did a Volume 1 album one year and Volume 2 the next year. I think they’ve sold 150,000 units on that basic compilation.” In 1991, Nicol and Walden
“The first show that we did with that was with
Marti Webb and Mark Rattray,” says Walden. “That was really successful straight away, people responded to it and there was clearly an untapped market there. “We toured that and continued to do so over
“The Rat Pack was Frank, Sammy and Dean with the slick suits, the whiskey glass in one had, the
cigarette in the other. And it was interesting because younger
audiences connected with that” DEREK NICOL, FLYING MUSIC
decided that they wanted to branch out into shows that were driven as much by the brand as the names of the artists on the stage. “That’s when we started developing our own
shows,” says Walden. “The first one of those was The Magic Of Musicals, the concept for which was effectively creating a greatest hits album, featuring the best known songs from a range of West End hit musicals and applying it to the theatre environment.” This kind of Flying Music show wasn’t about
simply brokering a deal that would see the icons of an era share a stage, it was about recreating a whole experience and bringing a time, place and genre to life right in front of people’s eyes.
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many years. It was another 360 project where there was a record, which I think went Silver, a TV special with the BBC again and a video.” From that came American
equivalent Hollywood And Broadway featuring Wayne Sleep and Lorna Luft. “While continuing to do all the things that we’ve always done, promoting the individual artists, we were creating these individual brands,” explains Walden, pointing to Dancing In The
Street, which recreated the classic Sixties vibe with what was essentially the best of Motown on stage, and in 2000 The Rat Pack Live In Las Vegas, where the idea of travelling back to an iconic era became more prominent than ever. “It was Frank, Sammy and Dean with the slick
suits, the whiskey glass in one had, the cigarette in the other,” says Nicol with a little bit of swagger. “And it was interesting because younger audiences connected with that.” Walden elaborates: “The younger generation was
aware of these great songs that were out there thanks to their parents, but they didn’t really understand what it was all about.
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