Golden wonder?

MW's 50th anniversay asks questions of executives

Music Week is to mark its golden anniversary next year with a special award to honour the best UK music industry executive of the past 50 years.

As part of the celebrations to recognise the first edition of Music Week predecessor Record Retailer appearing in August 1959, this April's Music Week Awards will include a one-off award honouring the executive judged to have made the greatest contribution to the industry during the lifetime of the magazine.

The process to identify who should win this prestigious award begins today (Monday), with Music Week initially opening it out to every reader of the magazine and sister website musicweek.com to submit their own recommendations.

On the page opposite is a voting form enabling you not only to suggest who should win, but also to say why. As well as being able to make a recommendation via post or fax, you will also be able to submit your suggestions online by going to www.musicweek.com/awards and clicking on the How To Enter section.

The award will be open to anyone who has worked in any part of the music industry in the UK at any time over the past 50 years, ranging from executives within record and publishing companies, artist managers, figures from the live music industry and elsewhere.

They can be living or deceased and do not need to be British, only that a significant part of their career has been or was within the UK industry.