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ONE VISION Music industry execs gathered with friends and family of Freddie Mercury at The Savoy Hotel in London on Monday night to celebrate the legendary Queen frontman and raise money for The Mercury Phoenix Trust. [Clockwise from top left] Andrea Edmondson, Ted Cockle, Ruth Parrish (Island) and William Rice (Purple PR); NME.com editor Luke Lewis and wife Sophie; Adam White and Sarah Roberts (Universal); Stuart Bell, Lisa Birch and Andy Bell (DawBell); Dave Lowe, Jeremy Banks, Elena Blobel (IFPI), Julie Harari-West (Deezer) and Gabriela Lopes (IFPI).


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Asylum Records Founded 1971


Key Artists Ed Sheeran, Rudimental, Warren Zevon


David Geffen and Elliot Roberts founded Asylum Records in the US in 1971, to provide a record contract for singer/songwriter Jackson Browne. Subsequent early signings included Tom Waits, The Eagles and Joni Mitchell. One of the label’s first key artists was Bob Dylan (pictured) who turned


up at Asylum’s door following a fallout with Columbia Records. Dylan recorded two albums for Asylum before returning to Columbia. In 1972, the label was taken over by Warner


Communications (now the Warner Music Group), and merged with Elektra Records to become Elektra/Asylum Records. Asylum was reformatted into a country music


label in 1992, but by the end of the decade this had dissolved. After being dormant for several years, Asylum


was revived as an urban music-based label in 2004, with some of its releases distributed in


conjunction with Warner Bros Records and others through Atlantic Records. From 2006–2009, WMG shifted Asylum to operate under their newly created Independent Label Group. Current artists include Cee Lo Green, New Boyz and Ed Sheeran.


Did you know? The label achieved its first number one on the UK singles chart with Feel The Love by Rudimental.


DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE VS TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB SOCIAL STANDING


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Death Cab For C Tw


Official fan pages go head-to-head


Pitbull – 16,117,711 ,itbull – 16,117,711,


Prof. Green– 1,383,573 Wretch 32 – 134,771 1m


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utie – 2,014,235 2


Two Door Cinema Club – 1,057,183 2m


or Cutie – 92,096


Two Door Cinema Club – 169,249 50k


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Two Door Cinema Club – 15m


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lub – 18,406,997 20m


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