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MUSIC WEEK AWARDS 2008: The Strat.
WINNER: TONY WADSWORTH
Humphrey Bogart's line in Casablanca "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" could have been written for Tony Wadsworth when he arrived at EMI back in 1982. As it was, Bogie's influence had been felt on the record executive long before he first walked through the doors of Manchester Square.
It was 1975 and Wadsworth was studying economics at Newcastle University where, in a hardly unfamiliar pattern, the budding guitarist and vocalist joined forces with a bunch of friends to form a band. Stuck for a name, they eventually settled on Young Bucks, inspired by the Bogart movie Key Largo in which it is uttered, "We're looking for a couple of lndians broke out of jail, young bucks in fancy shirts."
The Young Bucks never did hit those heady heights (and he equally failed to establish a reputation for wearing fancy shirts), but a switch by Wadsworth to behind the scenes and ...