Musical background

Some heavy honchos made the case for #save6music with the BBC Chairman Sir Michael Lyons yesterday, reports Music Week.

The BPI team included...
Tony Wadsworth, Chairman of the BPI (previously with EMI, and ran Parlophone when it had Blur, Radiohead, Crowded House, Pet Shop Boys, Tina Turner and Queen in the 1990s)
Geoff Taylor, Chief Executive of the BPI, with a legal background
Paul Curran of Sony (many years with BMG and with Eel Pie, publishers to Pete Townshend and The Who)
Andria Vidler of EMI (ex-Five Live marketing, Capital, Magic, Bauer Radio and Magazines)
David Joseph of Universal (involved in signing Scissor Sisters, Kaiser Chiefs, Rolling Stones etc)
Jeremy Marsh of Warner (previously Virgin, WEA, and RCA - worked with Seal, Neneh Cherry and Soul II Soul)
Feargal Sharkey (of The Undertones, now Chief Executive of umbrella group UK Music)
Jon Webster, chief executive of the Music Managers' Forum (previously helped devise the brand Now That's What I Call Music and The Mercury Prize)
Alison Wenham, Chairman and Chief Executive of the Association of Independent Music
Korda Marshall, of Infectious Records (at RCA he signed The Blow Monkeys, The Wedding Present, Pop Will eat Itself, Londonbeat and Take That; at Atlantic, The Darkness and James Blunt among others; at Warner, Gnarls Barkley, The Foals, The Enemy, Pendulum and Seasick Steve)

Sir Michael was flanked by two of his team. Mark Wakefield, Senior Performance Manager, previously with management consultants Arthur D Little, and Stephen Callow, Performance Adviser, who seems to like wine, football and cricket. Let's hope they listened.