FROM THE MUSIC WEEK ARCHIVE THAT WAS THE This week 25 years ago...
THAT WAS LAW AND DISORDER
TOP STORY
Twenty-fi ve years ago, music pirates were feeling the wrath of the biz. Er, kind of. Stephen Charlesworth of Clwyd-based company Designatec was found guilty of breaching an injunction stopping him advertising video bootlegs of artists and warned further breaches would result in jail time. Leading names in the biz were not exactly happy bunnies about it. “Even a week in prison would have served as a warning to pirates,” said Tim Dabin, head of the BPI Anti-Piracy Unit.
More legal drama, ahoy! George Michael’s manager Rob Kahane stunned the High Court by alleging that Sony tried to bribe him into signing the singer to CBS in the US and that Sony chief Tommy Mottola had links with the Mafi a. Sony vehemently denied the claims, kapish?
THE SONYPRANOS
KARMA LITIGATION With hindsight, this issue really should have been christened Legal Week. There was yet more court drama when Equator boss Carol Wilson received undisclosed damages from the News Of The World after the paper identifi ed her as the person who issued Boy George with a paternity suit. “I’ve never even met him,” said Wilson. Case dismissed.
Also inside... Paul McCartney was honoured at the BMI/PRS Awards, with Yesterday being named the most performed song ever on US radio and television... Sony put more than £1m into pushing its MiniDisc format over Christmas... The BRIT Awards committee decided to drop the classical category as part of a revamp, little did they know that 25 years later Andrea Bocelli would be scoring a No.1 album... The singles and albums charts were dominated by one name: Meat Loaf, who scored No.1s with the hit I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That) and the blockbusting Bat Out Of Hell II – Back Into Hell album...
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