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The music industry was amply rewarded in the Queen's New Year List with UK Music chairman Andy Heath and 19 other executives, musicians and singers picking up honours.

Heath, a giant among the indie publishing sector, which he joined in 1971, can put MBE after his name now his "services to the music publishing industry" have been recognised.

In a massively varied and long career Heath has created the successful Momentum Music and 4AD publishing houses and served on the MPA council for a decade. But the honour is also in recognition of his recent efforts, in tandem with Feargal Sharkey, to make the music industry more dynamic and an effective lobbying force by creating UK Music. Heath was in Los Angeles when the list ...

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