PROFILE JEFF WAYNE: JWMG: "A Joy to work with".

The Jeff Wayne Music Group is the oldest part of Jeff Wayne's professional patchwork, a 40-years-young production, research and licensing specialist.

"I started my company because I remember my dad, who was a very successful singer and actor in his own right, advising me that this was an industry which could bring fair weather or foul, and it might be worth starting a little business relating to the industry I love, so that in the down days I could put something back into it."

"My career and the business developed in parallel, and in the early Seventies I stepped back from its daily operation, allowing JWMG to become what it is today: its own, self-running company with a great team behind it," says Wayne.

Today, it breaks into three divisions: a production music specialist; a research and licensing department and an online music library.

"Search, the research and licensing department, sources existing copyright music for clients from all media, and then negotiates licences on behalf of them.

"Its biggest hook is that we are totally independent, so we can research and use any music from anywhere, rather than being restricted to one or two catalogues," says head of Search Paul Goodban. "That means we can handle any brief, from classical to grimecore, with equal aplomb."

To name just a few of Search's recent placements on major TV ads, the division has sourced tracks from Turin Brakes, Matt Monro, Dodgy and Shostakovich, "So you can see that we are nothing if not eclectic," says Goodban.