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Twenty names in the frame for anniversary award.
Legendary Beatles manager Brian Epstein, Island Records founder Chris Blackwell and 19 Entertainment's Simon Fuller are among the contenders for a special Music Week award to recognise the most influential UK- based industry executive of the past five decades.
The trio are part of a shortlist of 20 names competing for the honour, which will be given out at the Music Week Awards on April 8 to mark the 50th anniversary of the magazine.
Executives from across the five decades and covering everything from record labels and artist management to live and retail appear on the shortlist, which has been drawn up by an eight-strong panel of some of the business's most experienced figures.
Names from the past on the list include the hugely-influential Maurice Oberstein, who ran CBS and then PolyGram, Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant, Decca founder Sir Edward Lewis and Mickie Most, one of the UK's most successful record producers and RAK Records founder.
They appear alongside contemporary names on the shortlist such as UMGI chairman and CEO Lucian Grainge, Syco founder Simon Cowell and Beggars co-founder Martin Mills.
Epstein is joined among the 20 by Sir George Martin who, as head of Parlophone in 1962, famously signed The Beatles, while another former Parlophone head, Tony Wadsworth, who went on to run the whole of EMI UK & Ireland and is presently ...
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