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Kerrang! digital paves the way O Emap is preparing for the West Midlands opening of a Kerrang! FM station next year with the launch of a digital Kerrang! service in the région. The Kerrang! digital station will start broadcasting in the new year on the MXR West Midlands Régional Multiplex to a potential audience of 33ni adults, ahead of the launch of the Kerrang! FM station sometime in the summer. The digital service is already availabie on the London digital multiplex and nationally on the BBC-backed digital TV platform Freeview. • The British launch of the Martin Scorsese movie sériés The Blues

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• Radiohead frontman Tliom Yorke bas contributed two specially recorded acoustic numbers as part of his band's spell overseeing BBC digital from today (Monday) until next Sunday (28). The tracks will go out this moming on Gideon Coe's show, while group members will also guest on programmes during the week. O Warner M Zeppelin DVD, whichso iesforami c DVD in flrëT^ei^aLreleaseinMay, is long the nominations in the bas

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Wal-Mart sparks online price war 8 Wal-Mart, the parent of UK supermarket chain Asda, is preparing for the fuil launch of a music downloads service in the spnng, The

$lm worth of iTunes online gift certificates and aliowances - whicl allows parents to deposit fonds directly into their children's iTunes Music Store account - have been bought since the facility wa; the service in October. Mear Apple's Eddy Due is expected to discuss plans for the company's expansion into Europe at MidemNi story p5). "i Pamra's success at persuading topay ( performers for the first time this year lielped the performer organisation to distribute a record £2.4m to members derived from overseas sources in 2003. Tliis compares with just £897,215 last year. For the first time. Pamra managed to secure payments from its équivalents in Belgium, Denmark, Republic of Ireiand and Japan, the latter paying out just over £200,000 to UK performers. yesterday (Sunday) bidding to Christmas chart, just a year after forming the company. p4

counter UK sales passed the 100,000 sales mark and she signed a doal with Sony/ATV Music Publishlng. The doal, signed just months after <e Batt

jack catalogue, gold-certified album was yesterday (Sunday) expected to takc its place in the Christmas Top 40 chart. Sony/ATV managing director Cliarlie Pinrier (left) notes that his company has signed only a few deals this year, but in Melua says lie has spotted a talented songwriter with plenty of potential.

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completed a consultation on its radio licensing framework in the new year. The consultation, due to be held in January, will explore various options for radio licensing, Ofcom is taking over the rôle of handing out radio

is incorporate TV and promo commercial making, animation and art direction/graphie design teams, is changing its name on January 5 to Stuiming, The company's clients include acts such as The Thrills and Robbie Williams.

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• Tire Fr King - Spécial Edition are also shortlisted in the same calegory, with the awards taking place on February 19 at Bafta's London home.

the En I a CD-Rom featuring a study of in a bid to encourage greater collaboration bel The CD-Rom includes a guide to, and a comparative survey of, the French and British music industries, as well lusic by a sting of French acts. Therei France's biggest ex et after releases and tours from French artists in the UK and a growing number of UK acts signing to French labels. ® UK companies planning to attend January's Midem conférence have doubled on last year. pS O Brigliton Underground, a non- profit organisation backing the music

New members joîn radio board © The Commercial Radio Companies Association lias expanded the size of its board to improve its représentation of smaller stations, Spirit FM's Stephen Dates and Radio Investments' John Sanderson have been co-opted onto the board as small-sector directors. They will sit alongside nine other elected members, Virgin Radio's John Pearson was elected as national sector director, Lines FM's Michael Betton medium-sector director and Tindle Radio's Kevin Stewart as small-sector director. Elected as général directors were GWR's Ralph Bernard, Southcity FM's Chris Carnegy, Scottish Radio Holdings'David Goode, David Mansfield of Capital Radio, Chrysalis Radio's Phil RileyandTim Schoonmaker of Emap. • Zoë Bail is to move from Xfm's dnvetime show to a new show on the London-based station every Friday night. She hands over to Lauren Laveme, who will front the show from January 5, Xfm programme

s linked im to help secure greater ticket allocations for music concerts and land event sponsorship. Lastminute.com says the Je arrivai marks its intention a bigger player in music e' O Dicter Vogel has been

d. Vogel, who was previously vice-chairman, takes up hi new rôle on January 1 with Jûrgen Strube taking over his former rote.

This is the final Music Week of 2003 The first issue of 2004 will be published in the week beginning January 5, and will feature two weeks' worth of charts. In the meantime, the Music Week offices : end of December 23, reopening again on January 2, From ail of the Music Week staff to ail of our readers, have a very Merry Christmas and 3 happy new year.

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way Paul Gambaccini bas. And fewer still have careers tbat have lasled as long at such a consis- tently high level. For 30 years, Gambaccini bas been a prcsence on the UK arts scene, eitlier on our TV screens in the guise of a film reviewer or observer of musical

trends, or as a radio broadcaster whose eclecti- cism illustrâtes the epithet given to him by friend and colleague Tim Blackmore: 'renaissance m an". His broadcasting career has witnessed stints at viitually every major radio station in the country, while he has interspersed such prolific activity wilh rôles as a film reviewer for the then-fledgling UK breakfast experiment TV-AM and its now- established successor, GMTV. He has written or contributed to more than 40 books, including the best-selling Guinness Book Of British Hit Singles, co-authored with Tim Rice, Jo Rice and Mike Read, and has also undertaken tireless work for

more than 20 years on behalf of Amnesty Interna- tional and the Terence Higgins TVust. His colourful career has also run parallel to some of the most important developments in UK radio. He has seen Radio One - the station he joined 30 years ago - ebb and flow, witnessed the commercial radio révolution at close quarters, and, more recently, helped popularise classical and jazz music among an audience that othenvise might have baulked at both. He is a huge fan of music, has interviewed most of the greatest artists of our time and helped turn other people onto their music. "Paul has an intel-

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leetual approach to popular music more com- An oamcst young monly associated with studies of ancient Rome or Gambaccini English literature, which was veiy unusual when ôariy collège radie he started out. He does it without being preten- days in tiic us tious and he instils in people the view that popular music is a part of our culture, one that is as impor- tant as jazz or classical or whatever. He's very knowledgeable and he's become a good friend," says Tim Rice. In recent years he has also become synony- mous with a number of high-profile UK music industry award events, including the Ivors, the MMF Awards, and the Music Industry Trust Dinner, through his seamless - and generally notes-free - MCing. That he won the Sony Award for music broad-

caster of the year at this year's cereraony - the lat- est in a long string of awards - is perhaps the most fitting testament to the longevity of his career and the strength of his personality, after first hitting the UK airwaves some three décades ago. Bom in the Bronx in 1949, Gambo's broadeast- ing story begins in Septeraber 1966, when he began studying history at Dartmouth Collège, New England. He chose Dartmouth following an earlier look-see visit during which he had been impressed by the college's radio station. "They were ahead of New York in hit records, and I was very excited by that," he says. "It was a block-for- matted station, like WBZ Boston, meaning eveiy couple of hours was différent. You dont have that nowadays, what with station-sound formats." The two records that got excited Gambaccini about the Dartmouth station ail those years ago were I Am A Rock by Simon & Garfunkel - "because New York was still on Homeward Bound" - and Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind by the Lovin' Spoonfiil ("New York was still on Daydream"). "I thought, 'this is great, we're like CKLW and WBZ, we're always ahead of New York'. New York was ahead on R&B records because of its big urban scene, but it was way behind on pop records." Gambaccini took and passed a voice test in his freshman week and joined the news training stream ofthe collège station as a reporter covering local news and reading out national news ffom the UPI wires. During the summer holiday of his first year, the station went year-round for the first time and Gambaccini, along with five others, kept it going while doing free coursework that they wouldn't have to do in the regular year. This was

of being a DJ. "We had to do everything, including firing up the station at 5.1 in the morning, playing the collège anthem - Men Of Dartmouth - and then combin- ing attending those free courses with broadeast- ing. My first test as a DJ was a jazz programme on a Saturday night, when I figured no-one was lis- tening. I remember playing Loti Rawls' Love 1s A Hurtin'Thing, just because I loved it." It was a great éducation. "That was my life, day in, day out. But I leamt. It's amazing how four years of that préparés you professionally," he says. "In my last year, I was the général manager of the station - one of the happiest days of my life was when the ratings came in and we went from two to number one in the three station market and I was the highest-rated DJ in the tri-town area. I could- n't believe it, I was number one. Who cares that the corabined population of the area was around 50,000." Following a row in his first year with the sta- tions news director, Gambaccini was offered a DJ slot, presenting a show ealled the Rhythm & Blues Hall Of Famé on a Friday night. He then moved onto Sounds Of The TH-Town, daily from three to five, which he did for two years. It was in his words, "heaven". Radio wasn't his only forte, however. At a loose end early one morning in his senior year, he was inspired to write a handful of record reviews and send thera in on spec to Rolling Stone singles reviews editor Ed Ward. To his surprise, Ward

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wrote back a week later saying how much lie loved the reiiews and would lie do more (the lettei- is framed in pnde of place in Gambo's bathroom). "So that's how I became a record reviewer for Rolling Stone, in one unsolicited aftempt. Wlien- ever I have confirmation of Ed VVard's continued existence, as I did last year when I heatxl hira on

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► Gombo's Top 10s continued Sultans Of Swing - Dire Straits God bless Charlie Gillett. This great music man played the dcmo on his Radio London show and managed to get the Straits signed. I picked them on Radio One as my act-to-make-it in 1979 and the rest, as they say, is Ed Bîcknell's Tuhular Bells - Mike Oldfield John Peel insisted I listen to this when I was a guest at his house in Stowmarket. As was the case so often, lie was right. I wrote a rave review for Rolling Stone which was reproduced on the slceve of the American single. Seeing as the sales on this album started Richard Branson on the road to riches, I figure he owes Saturday Night Fever - Bee Gces and It so dominated its era vie tend to | forget that it deserved to. Stayin' Alive really was 01 singles of the century. The Eighties Don't You Want Me - Human League Dancing to the 12-inch of this was nightclub nirvana. When I told producer Martin Rushent I loved every second of the record, he despaired that he couldn't enjoy listening to it because there was one errant drumbeat he hadn't fixed. I told him I thought the offbeat had been intentional and loved it. Like A Prayer - Madonna If you're a lapsed Catholic, this is fantastic. Maybe you don't even have to be a lapsed Catholic. The first new number one album of the Eighties was one of the best of the decade, filled with hit songs and hot stuff from Chrissie Hynde and pals. A couple of years earlier, her manager Dave Hill had enthused to me about a great new American singer he was going to match up with some British musicians. We became friends, and I passed on to Chrissie and Pete the very first computer game I was ever given. I had no need for this sort of stuff. Private Dancer - Tina Turner I interviewed Tina several times during her comeback period. I was shaken by the humiliation she had endured and inspired by the courage she showed in rebuilding her life and career. When her manager played me Mark Knopfler's demo of what became the title tune, 1 thought it would be a smash for Tina. The Joshua Tree - U2 heaven they have stayed ai :e the Beatles. Thank

Synchronicity - Police I knew the Police were not long for groupdom when interviewing them in New Orléans for my Channel 4 séries The Other Side Of The Tracks. When Andy Summers explained that synchronicity was a concept he had picked up in Jungian therapy. Sting interjected "You needed it. You still need it." The next day he wrote Moon Over Bourbon Street and he

And so I started doing reviews for that." Afler his first year on Rockspeak, Peel took over the programme and its name changed to Rock Week. Gambaccini was now working directly with Peel, while sharing an office with Walters. "In his- torié terms, it is a brief period to me. Peel, Walters and my executive producer Teddy Warrick - another of the late, great lamented ones - are my radio triumvirate ofthe people who helped make my career here. The reason I recently chose Peel as my Soul Model [for a fortheoming piece in The Times] is because he has absolute integrily about music. He was always going to play the music he thought was good, whether it was popular or not." Peel himself has fond memories of Gambaccini - and in particular of a party his young American colleague hosted when he moved out of a fiât by . "It happened to be on [my wife] Sheila's birthday. Paul had gone out to get her some chocolaté let- ters to spell out 'Happy Birthday Pig', but being a greedy bugger, he ended up eating half of them so it said 'Hap Day Pig'. She was wearing a white cheese cloth dress," he says. "He poured her a glass of red wine and then made a lovely speech, but at the end he grabbed her arm and shook it rather too enthusiastically so the red wine went ail over her. She never wore the dress again. But he's a veiy sweet man and we don't bear a grudge." A brief sabbatical in 1974 as executive producer at Boston's legendary WBZ station - "at 50,000 watts as big as they corne in America" - gave Gam- baccini a clearer view of the rôle of management at a radio station. It was one he realised was not for him. "l'm glad I did because it taught me from an early âge that I wanted to be talent and not management, although nowadays there are moments when I sometimes think 'Now l'd like to be management', not because I want to stop being picturcd talent, but rather when you disagree with a station Gambacc controller, you'd like to be able to run things." Kajaijoog On his return from WBZ after a year, Gambac- EltonJot cini was offered the American Hits programme, (centre) which aired on Radio One on Saturday after- noons from the end of September 1975 for nearly a decade. "Having that show was very exciting, and intimidating. The first number one I had was Tm Sorry by John Denver and the next week it was Famé by Bowie. So there I was, on Radio One. Unless you blew it, you were in for a good number of years." After 10 years, however, things began to sour. "Around 1985, the station was falling apart in terms of its unity. The glory days were in the mid- to-late-Seventies, when we had around 25m lis- teners a week. Then everyone worked together as a team; the struggle for the soul of the station had been resolved, and it's easy to get along when you're successful. We played charity football matches against local BBC radio sides around the country. I was in midfield, alongside Kid Jensen - meaning crap. We vied for who knew the least, but that didn't stop us from scoring the odd goal.

"It broke dowt early Eighties; we had our first DJ who wouldn't play [football] ^ and he didn't get along with a couple of the other daytime DJs and they wouldn't trail each other or handover in the usual friendly manner. I cannot tell you the arguments that went on inside the station; was it better to have a dis- mptive force who got ratings or better for station morale not to have such a person on? The ratings argument won and the station unity broke down." Then, out of the blue in 1985, Gambaccini received an offer from independent local radio to host a weekly network album show, which was designed to be a natural counterpoint to the sin- gles chart show, presented by fellow Radio One exile Kid Jensen. "My only conditions for doing this were, firstly. I should be able to do an Amer- ican Hits show on at least Capital and [Man- chester's] Piccadilly, since I didn't want my friends to think I had disappeared, nor did I want to give up my calling card and second, I wanted the blessing of Johnny Beerling, the then-Radio One controller." The events surrounding his departure from Radio One gave Gambaccini's first taste of how the UK press can run totally untrue stories with zéro regard for the individus! concemed's réputa- tion. "The Daily Mail ran a story that said I had a blazing row with Beerling and been fired and that I was going to move to Manchester. Ail false and ail, so we leamed later, from the same insidious Radio One DJ who had poisoned the well on so many occasions." Gambaccini prefers not to name the DJ concemed. More generally, he says the way he has been treated by ne wspapers has taught hi m some harsh lessons about being in the public gaze, not least because of his sexuality. "Learning about the shorteomings of every British newspaper has been very sobering and l've been fortunate not to have been subjected to the sort of titillation campaigns that El ton and Kenny [Everett] had to endure, or Russell Harty, or Freddie Mercury. The people who do those sort of things are infantile." In fact, he says his sexuality has never impinged on his work. "l've never been 'in' so I couldn't be said to have to corne out, but when some people finally noticed, l'm not aware of it having had an impact on my career," he says. One lesson that Gambaccini leamt early on in commercial radio is that its leading stations "just wanted money, not any spécifie type of show". The American Hits show on Capital acquired a spon- sor in the form of Pepsi, while the stations carry- ing the album show crossed over to the American Hits show because it was sponsored. Then Pepsi executives in the US heard American Hits and decided they wanted a différent kind of host, leav- ing Gambaccini doing shows on Capital and Cap- ital Gold, alongside his TV broadeasts and book

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► Gambo's Top 10s continuée! The feetiss Beethoven: Nine Symphonies - Chamber Orchestra of Europe comluctetl by Nikolaus Haruoncourt This is my favourite recording of the Bectliovcr cycle, and I am glad to say I saw Harnoncourt perform it at the Royal Festival Hall. Carreras Domingo Pavarotti - In Concert This variety show shouldn't bave worked, but it did. Although Carreras had the greatest single performance of the Three Ténors sériés in Massenet's 0 Souverain from the 1994 Los Angeles concert, each of the three excelled on tins 1990 World Cup tie-in. Domingo always gave an intelligent interview, and Pavarotti was good value for other reasons. "I must lose weight", lie told me once wlnle eating a Gorecki; Symphony No. 3 - Dawn Upshaw (soprano), London Sinfonietta conducted by David Zlnnian When Classic FM's Michael Bukht asked me to présent a weekly chart show, I insisted on having a Classic FM Sure Shot, a tribute to the WMCA [New York] Good Guy Sure Shot of my youth. The very first week Keith Shadwick and Robert Cowan selected tins. I played it my first Saturday morning and every week for months. It built slowly, crossed over to the pop top ten, and went gold. We helped make a Polish pensioner a

chart show, Jazz 20, since March this year. "Wliat Paul doesn't know about music isn't worth writing down, He adds weight to the schedules of Jazz FM - indeed, you could say he's the Rolls Royce of our schedules," says Jazz FM London programme director Mark Walker. 'Paul is a hero in the industry and a complété specialist across ail genres. As a broadeaster, he manages to combine his skills in things like talk- ups with an ability not to piss off the listener. As a former présenter myself, ifs amazing to watch him at work. He's a hero to my génération of broadeaster."

One feature of Gambaccini's life and work that everyone who bas worked with him comments on is the breadth of his knowledge. "Paul has e.vten- sive knowledge of ail aspects of life here and in the US, be it politics, classical music, popular music, jazz, rock & roll, movies, TV. He has contributed to almost every aspect of artistic endeavour and 1 am an ardent admirer of a man who is able to understand so many areas of what makes up the human condition," says Unique Productions' Tim Blackmore, who knew Gambaccini at Radio One and subsequently worked with him on the ILR Hits show and endless awards shows

RADIO ACADEfiiY

FOR 30 YEARS IN THE MUSIC RADIO INDUSTRY

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including the Ivor Novellos, the Sony Radio Acad- emyAwards and the Music Industry TVust Avvard. "Heisvery honest, and is not soraeone who suf- fers fools gladly. Sure, some say he is prickly, but he will aiwa)^ ably explain why he feels the way he does at any given time. Ultimately, he is a joy to work with. When I commissioned him to do an essay to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death [on Radio Two] he began with a simple yet hugely effective statement: 'Elvis Presley. The man who gave America sex.' Paul has a gift for sumraing up things perfectly." Former Radio One controller Johnny Beerling says, "Paul was a very clean eut, all-American kid when he came into the station. It was rare to find a DJ who managed to combine a great voice, an encyclopaedic knowledge of music and a nice per- sonality. There are not many people you can say that about. He deserves ail the success he's got." It is not just broadeasters that Gambaccini has

inspired or worked alongside over the years, since top left, chat his 30 years in the business have also brought him into contact with just about eveiy senior music ceiebsînciùd industry figure of note as well. Suggsami Peter Jamieson, now executive chairman of the Jonathan to EPI,firstmethimthroughfellowUSexpatHarri- 'ow '>t0' ett Brand in the late Seventies. "I came to admire Top right, in his lobbed pitch at softball in Regents Park next to company of where I lived," recalls Jamieson. with Burt96' "As a raconteur, he is inimitable, with a great Bachamch (f stage presence. He has an uncanny ability to com- '"Loildon^F mit his encyclopaedic knowledge to detailed illus- FesUua|0HaS||F tration while standing on his feet in front of a huge crowd - without notes, which is quite unique in my opinion. This is also facilitated by his love of music and a whole raft of artists in particular. He is a passionate devotee of ail things 'chart' and remains disenchanted by their current flavour and marketed composition.' Another record industry vétéran who has

► Gambo's Top 10s continued Tt's So Harrf to Say Coodbye to Yesterday - Boyz II Mon The minute I heard this version of the oid GC Cameron song, my ears hit the ceiling. These teenagers had soul and talent, and they went on to dominate the US singles chart of the

for R.E.M.'s commercials Losing My Religion - R.E.M. I did the ' " through most of the take this opportunity te s présents. Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor Perfectly produced and sung, this is Exhibit A for the case that a cover version can surpass its original. Songbird - Eva Cassidy Time was when "Have you heard this singer Eva Cassidy?" was a conspiratorial whisper or the East Coast of America. I could not find he records in stores in either New York or Los Angeles. Courtesy of Terry Wogan and Radio Two, this classic album became number one in Britain and bounced back to the States.

Idi Album - Cecilia Bartoli The world's leading mezzo-soprano proved there was more to Vivaldi than The FourSeasons with this astonishing programme of forgotten arias. Seeing her perform it live at the Wigmore Hall, and hearing it on this CD, were musical expériences of rare intensity.

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► Gambo's Top 10s continued Tlie Mis-education Of Laui-yn Hill - Laury» Hill I had not been a fan of the Fugees' covers, preferring the originals. Imagine my surprise and delight when tiieir femalc singer delivered a nearly perfect package of fresh material. If I Could Turn Bacl< tlie Hands of Time - R. Kelly The most important figure in R&B in the past décade channcls Sam Cookc via Unchained Melody, and I am 8,16 and 50 years old, ail at the same time. Tlie Noughtiss A Rush Of Blood To The Head - Coldplay Ail three of their albums are good, but tins is really good. A big hit single or two and tins phenomenon could expand to Pink Floyd dimensions. By The Way - Red Hot Chili Peppers Where was this album hiding for 15 years? Still, better late than never, when it cornes to a CD that is consistently rewarding and generates a string of hit singles. The Zéphyr Song is still ethereally beautiful. Corne Away With Me - Norah Jones One of the rare instances in which an artist emerges, as Paul McCartney said of his dream song Yesterday, "fully hatched". Crazy In Love - Beyoncé In Beyoncé, we could be seeing the tdevelopment of a star the stature of Diana Ross. We won't know for another decade or so, just as Ross had no idea she would be as major as she turned out to be until she was, so let's just enjoy the ride. Fallin' - Alicia Keys On a visit to Clive Davis' office in New York, be announced he had found his next great artist and played me the video of this song. As usual, he was right. Clive has been the outstandîng cultivator of commercial recording talent in the past 30 years. Lose Yourself - Eminem This is his ciassic. It will outlast the rest of the rap repertoire. Lose Yourself is the theme song of everyone who has no right to make it, but somehow does. Many of us can relate to it. Room For Squares - John Mayer Mayer is deemed too Radio Two for Radio One, even though he is in its démographie. Problem is, Radio Two considered this album too Radio One. Can someone please lift No Such Thing and Your Body Is a Wonderland out of the The Man Cornes Around - Johnny Cash This all-time ciassic album was the first in which a major artist spoke to us from the position of having one foot in the grave and knowing it. This is profound, deeply moving and musically thrilling. Twentysomething - Jamie Cullum Upon seeing him in a private club I thought "He's a 30-year star" - meaning that he would be an important artist for at least 30 years. I think he's the new Elton. Prove me right, Jamie. Where Is the Love - Black-Eyed Peas "Thank God for unsolicited manuscripts", Rolling Stone's Ed Ward wrote in my first reviews. Thank God for unexpected ciassic singles.

known him throughout his career (and currently works alongside him on the Music Industry TVust Avvaids) is Sony Music VP Gary Farrow. Farrow recalls first meet- ing Gambaccini in 1973 while he was working at Rocket Records as the office junior. "He came in holding his trademark New Yorker magazine under his arm - he's been my friend ever since," says Farrow. "His vast knowledge of every genre of music is outstanding. He is a total perfectionist in everything he does and his contribution over the years to the Ivor Novello Awards, the Music Radio Conférence, the Sony Awards and the MlTs is invaluable. New Yorks loss is the UK's gain." Lookingbackover his career, Gambaccini views what he has done as a sériés of successes, inter- spersed with challenges, sometimes tough ones. He embraces ail that has happened, regardless of how unpleasant things became at times. "The problem with the re-evaluation of one's life, in terms of what would you have done differently, is that everything you did had a resuit which broad- ened the range of your experience, whether it was

Tireless workfor good causes Though he is best known for his work as a broadeaster and writer, Paul Gambaccini has also worked tîrelessiy for a nimiber of charities. As a music industry vétéran he has been involved with industry charities, notably the Music Industry TVust Awards dimier which he lias compered for tlie past six years, and the rclated Nordoff Robins Music Therapy for

Amnesty International stretches back to the Seventies when he was In his twenties. "1 had been from the Victnain génération and I was very aware of the atroeîties that liad been coromitted on both sides, from My Lai, to the killing fields of Cambodia," he says. That involvcment deepened in 1986 when he concelved and produced the successful Conspiracy Of Hope compilation album. Using his extensive contacts book, Gambaccini recalls that everyone he approached was keen to participate - with the exception of Genesis ("because l'd asked for Land Of Confusion and it was too current for tbem") and Bono ("because he disagreéd with the politîcs of the title of one of the tracks to go on the album - he's an Amnesty purist"). Featuring contributions from Peter Gabriel, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Simple Mimls, Bryan Adams and a version of Billie Holiday's Strange Fruit specially- recorded by Sting, the album spun off singles and generated signiflcant incoine for Anmesty. This led to Gambaccini being asked to be the music coordinator for The Secret Poliçeman's Third Bail tlie foliowîng year, for which

successful or not. I had an experience at Radio Three where to some people I was as welcome as a severe case of strep throat. Of course, I could have minimised my anxiety by not going there, but that would have tightened the breadth of my experi- ence," he says. As he approaches his fourth decade in the busi- ness Gambaccini could be forgiven for wanting to ease up a bit, but he's having none of it. "This has been an almost unique and blessed career. First of ail, most people don't get to be on national média for 30 years. And most people don't get to know the gréât artists of their time. And through Kaléi- doscope Tve corne to know or at least interview many of the great personalities in the arts other "Tve had an astonishingly rich life and for ail the downs as well as the ups, I can say that I have been alive in my time and really that's the best you can hope for. I really am aware of how fortunate I have been. And I don't want it to end." It doesn't look like there's any danger of that happening for many years to corne.

ho had to organise two nights of music at the Palladium (Channcl 4's Paul Jackson did the two comedy nights, with Lenny Henry the only person who appeared in both shows). "Tve never been more terrified than when 1 went to bed that nighl and thought T've got two nights at the Palladium and tlie only person Tve got so far is Fortunately. almost ail tlie people lie asked agreed to take part, leaving him witii a biii that hicluded Joan Amiatrading, Erasure, Duran Duran, Lou Reod, Jackson Brawne, Mark Knopfier, Chet Atkins, Nik Kershaw, World Party, Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush backed by Dave Giimour and Nick Mason of Pink Floyd. Gambaccini is now playing a leading rôle in Amnesty's efforts to create a Human Rights Action Centre in Shoredilch, East London. "Paul was pivotai in the first part of the fundraising campaign, which lielped raise funds to buy the building, and he is heiping with Phase 11 to raise further funds to develop and refurbish the building. "He has been a great

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Velvet glove needed in P2P battle The public relations battle remains crucial, as the music business works to retain the goodwill of con- sumers who want music, but naturally would like it to be as cheap as possible. There are indications that the US légal actions deterred many P2P users, but suing consumers (which is how the légal remedies will be perceived) runs absolutely counter to the PR battle. Many insist that the law courts are the music indus- try's only means of defeating the scourge of free music sharing represented by P2P. We remain unconvinced of that - the case is far from proven. For us at Music Week, 2003 lias been a big year. We leave 2003 looking very différent to when we started it, following a thorough overhaul and redesign in the summer. And one of our primary aims in the year ahead is to push ahead, continuing to evolve and improve our service to you, our readers. In the meantime, it is time to celebrate another strong Christmas and look forward to what is certain to be another eventful year. Our next issue returns in the week beginning January 5. Until then, have a great Christmas and a restful new year. We look for- ward to seeing and speaking to you ail again in 2004.

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Whichever way you look at it, last week s various P2P judgements are certalnly not an idéal way to end the year. The KaZaA judgement is the one that will attract most publicity. IFPI says that, while disappointing, it is not a significant ruling; its terms of référencé are narrow and based on a one-sided view of the facts. But, any defeat - and there is no doubt that KaZaA is the happier of the two sides - can only damage the industry's ongoing public relations strategy, the battle for "hearts and minds", as BPI chief Peter Jamieson referred to it in the summer. The finer détails of Friday's judgment may mean it is unlikely to be a précédent for future cases, but those who examine the top-line détails will still see it as a victory for peer-to-peer services. That will be a great PRboost for services such as KaZaA. So, what next? IFPI's Jaylîerman believes one thing is inévitable - that the US "shock and awe" strat- egy of suing peer-to-peer users must be followed else- where. With many of the P2P services being based in Europe, it is hard to see that that does not mean mar- kets much doser to home, maybe even the UK itself. We at Music Week have been outspoken about our i at such tactics in the past, and we remain so.

Forget Pop Idol - Sanctuary

is real Christmas wînner Not even Nostrodamus could have predicted the Sanctuaiy Records Christmas singles success. If I had said a year ago that not only would we have the Number 1 single in the day (Kelly and Ozzy Osbourne's Changes), but that we would also

s number one (Gary Jules's Mad World). 1 would bave been laugbed at That we would be brealdng a new artist - Gary Jules, with our association with the Adventure label (without a Pop Idol caméra in We don't do disposable pop, but we do want popular success sight) and launching a career with his fabulous album, Trading Snabeoil for Wolftickets - makes be story even more extraordinn rethos.

to work with quality artists have long-term potcntial, are buoyant creatively, and i good understanding of their on in the retail marketplace. e do things differently at " usiness model been much discussed. Low- and safe returns on invest- t is the formula we have toinl bngourn

Ail the diligence and 1 by the Sanctuary team has paid off and we approach 2004 with many projects by a variety of talents - and not one has originated from a TV talent contest The trulh is that we have made a considered A&R policy at Sanc-

. firm foundation of remarkable and talented artists - including Steve Winwood, Ali- son Moyet, Océan Colour Scene, Spiritnalized, The Strokes and The Libertines (Rough Trade), and Ikara Colt (Fantastic Plastic) - while still workîng with catalogue artists such as Petula Clark, The Undertones, The Small Faces, and ourTrojan Reggae range. We aren't parsimonious with late our A&R risk carefully. We don't do disposable pop, but we do want popular success. With new albums by Morrissey, South, Tim Booth (James), St Eti- enne, and Beth Nielsen Chapman in the first quarter, you can under- stand why we approach 2004 with confidence. Happy Christmas everyone—It's A Mad World!

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Peter Thompson, Vital sales and marketing managing director "Fairytale of New York by the Pogues. Most Christmas songs are happy, sad tupid. Tliis is angry and unique.' Charlie Pinder, Sony/ATV Music Publishing managing director "Wombling Merry Christmas. It's a great song for starters. Ifs just the way Mike Batt managed to incorporate the word 'Womble' into every single title, which in itself is genius. It makes me feel young. It remnds me of the feeling I had on Kenneth Watt, Hamley's Father

"Well, of course l'm going to say The Darkness' Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End), But otherwise, Wham's Last Christmas. I remember the video with snow had a Christmasv feel to it" Lousada, East West Records liead of A&R "The Shane McGowan and Kirsty McColl song, Fairytale Of New York.

"Cliff Richard's Mistleloe And Wine. The iyrics and the tune stick in your mind. l'm not overly keen on these gimmicky records that rush for the Christmas number one spot But I do like référencés to peace on Earth and

Ifs raw and unique, I imagine getting drunk in a pub over Christmas with that playing. It connects with me and takes me somewhere I want to go. Ifs a whisky-haze kind of track," Miles Léonard, Parlophone managing director "Fairytale of New York, mainly because it doesn't follow the traditional sleigh bell route. It is lyrically clever, but very touching. and Kirsty McColl and Shane McGowan's vocals go so well together. Most Christmas songs are happy and loving and this takes a différent stance." . Paul Conroy, Adventure Records "Jona Lewie's Stop The Cavalry. I worked on it at Stiff Records. It was never meant to be a Christmas single. Chris' Is.ltjustrei Factory Records and In The City founder Tony Wilson. "New Ordefs Fine Time, which came out in November 1988, but had Christmas trees and angels in the video. It was also the single that fucked Factory because the album, Technique, didn't corne out Paul "The Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah. I first heard this when it was performed at school and I sang ténor. My favourite version is the Mormon Tabernacle Choir conducted

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DECEMBER 29 Victoria Beckham Let Your Head Go/This Groove Q9/Telstar): Sophie Ellis-Bextor I Won't Change You (Polydor); Océan Colour Scene Golden Gale Bridge (Sanctuary); Stacie Orrico I Promise (Virgin): S Club 8 Oon't Tell Me... (19/ Polydor): Wayne Wonder tbc (EastWest) JANUARY5 Basement Jaxx feat Usa Kekaula Good luck 0(1); Kelis Milkshake (Vitgin): Sean Paul l'mStill In love With You (VP/Atlanlic): Pop Idol Winner tbc (S):

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D €3) SHYFXRA RccyOUMfSPO) 2 1 LOST BROTHERS FEAT. G TOM MAC CRY LlTTLE SISTER (1NEED U NOW) ITEHT 3 O CHICKEN LIPS HES NOT IN A.«GW TIM 4 ULTRABEAT FEEUN- FINE AAUV iAMUTO 5 O CUPZ FUNK PHYSICS/5AIG0NKILLA M (V-THO 6 O ATOMIC KITTEN LADIESNIGHT 7 0 BEDROCK HEAVEN SCENT B^oci .AD© 8 4 VARIOUS ELECTRIC SOUL - ALBUM SAMPLER a<trK Dv.t c. : ho 9 0 CHAMPION BURNS SCRATCHISM w, î.«c3wn 10 0 MOBB DEEP SHOOKONES - PART 2 LÛUJVUWD 11 0 FUNK D-VOID EMOTION AL CONTENT SamW® 12 SAINTS AND SINNERS PUSHIM TOO HARD r-c-, i m» 13 14 CAMEL R10ERS TWISTED Sobùwafitaçart) 14 0 MASTERS AT WORK TO BE IN LOVE Oricdcd iv IHO 21 UNDERWORLD BORN SUPPY NUXX n 16 BEDROCK EMERALO fecrcuAD© 17 0 DIMITRI FROM PARIS IN THE HOUSE D^IVIHD 18 0 SOUL CENTRAL STRINGS OF LIFE Bu^wow 19 © TIEFSCHWARZ GHOSTRACK te IAO» 20 12 BENNY BENASSI PRESENTS THE BIZ SATISFACTION DauMr.-, « vv icm 1 The Officiai UKCharls CwrçMny 2003

1 BLACK EYED PEAS SHUT UP <10 l cr SUGABABES TOO LOST IN YOU © BLUE FEAT. STEV1E WONDER & ANGIE STONE SIGNED SEALED_ f««n-. 0 6 OUTKAST HEY YA! MotBMC) 3 KEVIN LYTTLE TURN ME ON © G-UNIT STUNT101 2 AUCIA KEYS YOU DONT KNOW MY NAME J ^ 7 FATMAN SCOOP FEAT. THE CROOKLYN CLAN BE FAITHFUL r- • j , u.< vu- • •, 9 LEMAR 50:50/LULLABY 10 4 BIG BROVAZ AINT WHAT YOU 00 Ci* mw 8 JA RULE CLAP BACK/REIGNS 0. (U) 12 5 JAY-Z CHANGE CLOTHES toUAW 13 10 JAMELIA SUPERSTAR ParWwff) 14 12 BLAZIN' SQUAD FlIP REVERSE L : vv = TCS, 15 n MICHAEL JACKSON ONE MORE CHANCE Ukiin.; 16 13 MISSY ELLIOTT PASS THAT OUTCH r£r: .n^ 17 15 BLACK EYED PEAS WHEREIS THE LOVE? ^nr -v.vr n.) 18 14 NELLY 12 U 19 0 LISA MAFFIA WOMEN OF THE WORLD 20 17 LUDACRIS STAND UP ffiSKScwEEKonHsni Ail tlie sales and airplay charts published in Music Week are also available online every Sunday evening at wwwjnusicweek.com

Dido is Christmas Queen, topping 270,000 sales, ahead of Will Young and Michael Jackson, as each of the top eight albums sell 100,000 units in a week.

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