23.11.12 Music Week 45 F
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SOMEBODY THAT IT’S GOOD TO KNOW That Island Records-issued Gotye track is the biggest- selling single of the year so far, so nobody could blame the record company for wanting to hand the artist a bit of congratulatory silverware when he played two sold- out shows at Hammersmith Apollo the other week. Gotye was presented with a pair of discs: one for double-platinum single sales (more than 1,200,000 sales) of Somebody That I Used To Know, and another for his double-gold (more than 250,000 sales) album Making Mirrors. [Left to right] Ted Cockle, Louis Bloom, Darcus Beese, Guillermo Ramos, Jon Turner, Wally (aka Gotye), Alix Wenmouth, Danny Rogers (manager).
KEY SONGS IN THE LIFE OF
CHARLIE PINDER
Head of A&R , Kassner Music
First record you remember buying? The Shadows’ 20 Golden Greats (from R.E. Cords in Derby – do you see what they did there?).
THE BON IS ON Some didn’t think Bon Iver could take their brand of folksy anthems to a venue the size of Wembley Arena, but the band – led by Justin Vernon – showed them how it’s done earlier this month. Team Wembley awarded the group - plus its agent, managers and promoter - with frames to mark the event, including Rob Challice (agent; far left, kneeling); managers Nate Vernon (4th from left top) and Kyle Frenette (2nd from right top); Justin Vernon (centre, kneeling, red hat); Kelly Chappel (promoter; second from right, kneeling); John Drury (Wembley Arena GM; far right, kneeling) and Lauren Tones (Wembley sponsorship and marketing co-ordinator; far right, top).
ARCHIVE MUSIC WEEK November 22, 1997
The growing media backlash against the Spice Girls (left) after their surprise dismissal of manager Simon Fuller is threatening to destroy the prospects of the group. When the girls were booed off stage at the Spanish music awards last Thursday a source at Fuller’s 19 Management said: “This kind of thing is going to keep on happening while they haven’t got a manager. When we were involved we used to go and sort this out on a regular basis”… Virgin Radio is to take a “serious look” at an £80m rival buyout bid from its breakfast show DJ
Chris Evans after the Department of Trade and Industry announced a three-week delay in the decision on the station’s takeover by Capital Radio. Evans made a humorous live-on-air request for help to buy the station so that he could guarantee his breakfast show job… The UK pop chart turns 45 this week and the industry is torn over whether it is time for a change.
NEW RELEASES RECOMMENDED 22.11.97
DIANA Tribute FIVE Slam Dunk (Da Funk) Five’s Slam Dunk (Da Funk) is a “solid, storming funk/pop/rap” single of the week. The track is a “certain hit, but lacking the wide appeal of a Christmas No.1” says Music Week. Meanwhile, a double album of tracks from various artists to raise money for the Diana memorial fund includes Queen’s Who Wants To Live Forever and the Chicken Shed Theatre Company’s I’m In Love With The World, an “intensely sad listening experience”.
Which song was the first dance at your wedding? The Lady In Red by Chris de Burgh, to make people think it was our song, but which, after a few excruciating bars, hilariously segued, with a vinyl scratch sound, into Jimi Hendrix’s Foxy Lady. You may have had to have been there.
HUCK’S IN A ROW You don’t get any old ‘slebs at PPL’s dinners, you know. Taking place after the Radio Academy Festival oop north last week, the PPL Hall Of Fame Dinner welcomed Sir Alex Ferguson and Lifetime Achievement winner Mick Hucknall – pictured here with PPL CEO Peter Leathem and chairman Fran Nevrkla.
POS ARTIST 1 AQUA
SINGLES TOP 5 22.11.97 SINGLE
Barbie Girl 2 NATALIE IMBRUGLIA 3 ALL SAINTS 4 B STREISAND & CELINE DION 5 HANSON Torn Never Ever Tell Him I Will Come To You
Favourite artist meeting of your life so far? Robert Plant. I gave him a lift in my car after our meeting, but forgot I’d been listening to Dreamer by Supertramp really loudly on the way to see him. So when I turned the engine on...
© Official Charts Company
ALBUMS TOP 5 22.11.97 POS ARTIST
ALBUM 1 SPICE GIRLS 2 THE VERVE 3 ETERNAL 4 ENYA 5 LIGHTNING SEEDS Spiceworld Urban Hymns Greatest Hits
Paint The Sky With Stars – The Best Of
Like You Do… The Best Of
What’s your karaoke speciality? I hate karaoke but if pushed, Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen.
Recommend a track Music Week readers may not have heard... Peking by TB Ward.
What’s your favourite single/ track of all time? I wish it was something by The Clash or Miles Davis but it’s Baker St by Gerry Rafferty.
© Official Charts Company
Which track would you like played at your funeral? I think about this a lot. It’s a toss up between Mathematics by Cherry Ghost, the theme to Black Beauty or The End by The Beatles (including the drum solo)... ‘And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make’. Not a dry eye in the house.
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