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studionews UNITED KINGDOM Horn to receive MPG Award as Sarm keeps recording


PRODUCER TREVOR HORN will receive the award for “outstanding contribution to UK music” at the 2014 Music Producers Guild Awards this month. The award, sponsored by


PPL, recognises Horn’s influential career in which he has penned and produced hits for artists such as Robbie Williams, Frankie Goes To Hollywood and Grace Jones. Fran Nevrkla OBE,


chairman of PPL, says: “PPL is particularly proud to be the sponsor of this award, which is bestowed on special individuals by their own community of record producers and others involved in studio production. Trevor is one of the most uniquely talented creative individuals, having achieved international fame both as a recording artist and a producer. His enormous success over so many decades is almost without parallel and it speaks for itself.”


out redundant equipment and even a ‘goodbye’-style party, the facility continues to operate. “The scaffolding might be up on the outside but, inside, Sarm Studios remains a hive of activity,” said a posting on


facebook. “We are pleased to let you know that we’re still up and running, taking bookings and enjoying business-as-usual from now until 31 [sic] June 2014.” Plans to redevelop the famous Ladbroke Grove rooms into a


number of apartments above two basement studios were first revealed in May 2011, but it wasn’t until August of last year that the team began to move operations away from the Basing Street building. Asked why the


redevelopment had been delayed again, ZTT label manager Ian Peel offered, “All the plans announced last year remain in place. Just the official closing date has been changed.” www.sarmstudios.com


Trevor Horn: outstanding contributor Horn is an accomplished


musician and producer, having earned himself the moniker of “the Man who Invented the Eighties” for his work with the likes of The Pet Shop Boys, Simple Minds, Seal and his production of Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas? The 2013 MPG Award will be hosted at the Park Plaza Riverbank Hotel in Vauxhall after being held at Café de Paris for five consecutive years. The decision to change the venue was made in order to accommodate more guests. In other news, despite last summer’s announcement of the imminent shutdown of Horn’s Sarm Studios in west London, a ‘yard sale’ to clear


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