Headline May22,2012/UK's .... ONCE GREAT

UK'S...EVER GREAT
MASTER  OF  MUSIC
Respectful Dedication The Beatles - Frank Sinatra - Backstreet Boys

Not so long ago - rather, just so recently - if you ever bought a CD or downloaded a track on our iPod, and ventured to ask yourself as to who owned the recording....? Well, if the record label it's on is Vertigo, Polydor, Defjam Geffen, A&M, Decca Island, Motonn or Dreamworks, then the answer is 'Universal Music Group.' And this list is likely to grow.

In all markets outside the US, this leviathan was controlled by Lucian Grainge, a former "Plugger" - securing ratio play for Eurythmics and the Pet Shop Boys and later the UK devision's Chairman and Chief Executive.

In person, however, it is said that Lucian Grainge displayed the same traits as the Jewish entrepreneurs who forged the music industry in Manhattan's Tin Pan Alley at the turn of the 20th century. What Rolling Stone journalist Ben Yagoda described as "a hard sell, a keen sense of what the public wanted, and a restless eye for the newest and best merchandise.

Grainge grew up in a middle class family in Finchley, North London. His mother was a Chartered Accountant , one of the first women to break into this profession. His father, a telecom executive, would typically start the day by playing an eclectic mix of music as loud as he could, from Neil Diamond to classical composes such as Mozart.

Grainge's own love affair with music was born with pink rock. One of the teachers at his school was mates with someone in The Stranglers , so he could get tickets to see them at the Hope & Anchor. He ended up seeing all the punk bands.

Lucian Grange who used to get spat on by punks, went on to dictate the musical taste of everyone in Britain.

So see you all on this beautiful post tomorrow as we get to rock into musical world !!!

Good night and God bless

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