Tony Wadsworth CBE -Former Chairman & CEO, EMI Music UK & Ireland
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Our final guest of 2020 is the Lancashire born,\\xa0 working class son of a window cleaner whose early academic promise saw him earn a scholarship to a good school and then a place to read economics at Newcastle University .
\\xa0It was there that he formed a band with some fellow students and after completing his studies moved down to London to try his luck at making music his full time job much to the dismay of his parents.\\xa0
\\xa0When things didn\\u2019t work out with the band he searched the job ads in Music Week and secured a position\\xa0 as a production manager at a little known compilation and novelty record label eventually ending up via several moves at EMI.\\xa0
\\xa0A serendipitous move into catalogue marketing and then a hugely successful stint running the mighty Parlophone label and overseeing artists such as Blur, Radiohead , Coldplay and boyhood heroes The Beatles were staging points on his way to the very top of EMI before the ill-fated takeover of the company\\xa0 by venture capitalist Guy Hands saw him edged out.
Tony Wadsworth , made a CBE in the Queens Birthday Honours List in 2011,\\xa0 talks to Andy Saunders about all of this , what he's up to these days and more in this week\\u2019s edition of \\u2018my Beautiful Mistakes.'
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Publish: Dec. 14, 2020 @ 7PM Edit
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