6 MusicWeek 20.07.12 NEWS INDUSTRY AWARD BESTOWED ON TAKE THAT MAN IN NOVEMBER AFTER ‘YEAR LIKE NO OTHER’
Barlow to be honoured at MITs 2012 G
AWARDS BY TIM INGHAM
ary Barlow is to be honoured with the 21st Music Industry Trusts
Award at the annual trade dinner on Monday, November 5. This award will be presented
to Barlow in recognition of the singer/songwriter’s services to British music and charity. The MITs will take place over
a charity dinner in London at the Grosvenor House Hotel, in aid of Nordoff Robbins and the BRIT Trust. Last year’s Award recipient
was Jools Holland. David Munns, chairman of
the Award committee, said: “We are delighted to honour Gary Barlow with the Music Industry Trusts Award for 2012. He is one of the UK’s most accomplished artists – a unique musician, songwriter and producer who embodies both success and distinction, and who serves as a dedicated ambassador for many charities. “It’s probably true to say that,
in what is already a remarkable career, 2012 has been like no other year for Gary. I can’t think of another artist who works with both Simon Cowell and Her Majesty The Queen; eventful is an understatement.
“He is one of the UK’s most accomplished artists – a unique musician, songwriter and producer who embodies both success and distinction...” DAVID MUNNS, MITS
OBITUARY GERRY BRON, MARCH 1933 - JUNE 2012 By Richard & Nicholas Bron, July 7 2012
LAST WEEK WE SAT IN RONNIE SCOTT’S and listened to Osibisa dedicate the song Woyaya to our late father, Gerry Bron, and someone commented: “Your Dad created world music 40 years ago“. Actually Dad joined his own father
Sydney Bron’s sheet-music business around 1949 at the age of 16, working as a publisher until flirting with record production in the 1960s whilst working with artists such as Gene Pitney, Manfred Mann, Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Three Dog Night, Gentle Giant, Colosseum, Juicy Lucy, Richard Barnes and Marianne Faithfull. Eventually in 1971 he started Bronze
Records having incredible worldwide success with artists such as Uriah Heep,
On November 5 his many
friends and admirers in the music industry will be there at the Award presentation to show their support and celebrate a great artist.” Barlow has written 11 No.1
singles and seven No.1 albums with Take That. Back For Good topped the singles charts in 31 countries, whilst he has also written and produced for many artists, including Sir Elton John. He is a six time recipient of
the Ivor Novello Award and has sold over 45 million records with Take That. His charity work has benefited organisations such as the Prince’s Trust, Children In Need and Comic Relief, and this year, by Royal Appointment, he organised the successful Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Concert. The charity single, Sing,
which Barlow co-wrote with Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber, shot to No.1 – as did the album
which housed it. The Take That star was then awarded an OBE last month. The Music Industry Trusts
Award, now in its 21th year, has raised over £4 million for Nordoff Robbins and the BRIT Trust. Names that have previously collected the gong include Sir George Martin, Ahmet Ertegun, Sir Elton John and Bernie Taupin, John Barry, Michael Parkinson, Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sir Tom Jones, Kylie Minogue and Jools Holland. The Award was founded
to recognise outstanding achievement in the UK music industry as well as benefiting Nordoff Robbins and the BRIT Trust. The Music Industry Trusts
Award is sponsored by Spotify, PPL and Ingenious Media. Tickets are available from:
mitsadmin@nrfr.co.uk, or telephone 020 7428 9908.
Sing it loud: Gary Barlow enjoyed success with the single and album Sing alongside the Commonwealth Band
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on the board of the BPI for many years. As well as music, he was
obsessed by technology. His forward thinking led him to the development of a copy-protection system for records, even before digital music, and he produced the ‘Cuemix’ device for studios without which Thom Yorke claimed that Radiohead could not have made OK Computer.
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, Osibisa, Motorhead, Girlschool, Sally Oldfield, The Damned, Juicy Lucy, Hawkwind and many others. He was then still producing records,
building and running a recording studio (The Roundhouse), a booking agency (The Bron Agency), a music-publishing business and managing several bands. He served
Despite his involvement with heavy
rock, Dad wore conservative suits and listened to classical music. Outside of music, but still in business,
he pursued his love of aeroplanes, establishing an air-charter service used by leading bands from all over the world. In the early 1980s he also started a computer animation company and was
excitedly talking up his ideas for animated feature films before Pixar was a blip on anyone’s radar. And in between all that he made a
good fist of being an unbelievable Dad. He would be the first person to say that
he couldn’t have done this without an incredible team of people and many of them – some now leaders in today’s music industry – acknowledge the start, advice and encouragement they received from him. Words like ‘a man of integrity’, ‘a father figure’ and ‘a gentleman’ have been used time and again in his honour. They also talk about his great sense of humour and love of his family. It’s typical of our unassuming Dad that
in a recent interview he said that his biggest achievement was “making my wife happy”, referring to his beloved wife Penny whom he married in 1982.
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