Harvey Goldsmith
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| Harvey Goldsmith | |
| Born | May 4, 1946 Edgware, London, UK |
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| Nationality | British |
| Citizenship | UK |
| Occupation | Promoter of The Performing Arts |
| Years active | 1966-present |
| Employer | Harvey Goldsmith Entertainments Ltd Harvey Goldsmith Productions Ltd Artiste Management Productions Ltd |
| Known for | Performing Arts promotions, Live Aid, Live 8 |
| Title | Harvey Goldsmith CBE |
| Website Harveygoldsmith.com |
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Harvey Goldsmith CBE (born 4 May 1946 in Edgware, London) is a British performing arts promoter. He is best known for the rock concerts, charity concerts, television broadcasts for the Prince's Trust and more recently the Teenage Cancer Trust shows at the Royal Albert Hall. During Spring 2007 he appeared on the Channel 4 programme Get Your Act Together with Harvey Goldsmith. In October the same year he promoted a reunion concert for surviving members of Led Zeppelin in memory of Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegün, which was held at held at the The The O2 Arena.[1]
[edit] Student years and later success 1966-1977
[edit] Briton Metropole and Cystal Palace Garden Parties
He started out as a pharmacy student in Brighton[1] where he founded Club 66 , a successful weekly student live music venue and organised larger events at the Brighton Metropole. By the end of that decade Goldsmith had created rock music events, such as the Crystal Palace Garden Parties and The fourteen hour Technicolor Dream. A decade later the concerts had moved to larger Stadiums and he had established Wembley Stadium as a major venue for the top artists of the world.
[edit] Career
[edit] Concerts for Kampuchea and Live Aid
During 1978 Goldsmith promoted the first major global TV event The Concerts for Kampuchea at Hammersmith Odeon, featuring artists including Paul McCartney, Queen and The Who. The event raised over $2 million from worldwide sales. In 1985, Goldsmith organised Live Aid with Bob Geldof which became a £140 million fundraising venture within ten weeks , uniting the World through Music . Live Aid was the first ever "Global Juke Box" and featured two simultaneous concerts, at Wembley Stadium and JFK Stadium, with over sixty countries carrying seventeen hours of Live Television.
[edit] Fundraising post Live Aid
Goldsmith has developed popular music as a successful means of fundraising. Following the success of Live Aid Goldsmith became involved with concerts in aid of Human Rights, including a worldwide Amnesty Tour.
[edit] Prince's Trust 1982-present
Harvey Goldsmith joined the The Prince's Trust in 1982 and produced the first Princes Trust Rock Gala. Goldsmith then became a member of the The Prince's Trust Board and Vice Chairman of Prince's Trust Trading Ltd.[1]
[edit] Luciano Pavarotti and Pink Floyd
In 1986, he promoted Luciano Pavarotti at Wembley Arena. It was because of Goldsmith's expertise in staging charity events that his company Harvey Goldsmith Artiste Management productions was brought in as Executive Producers of the 1990 performance of Pink Floyd's the wall, from Berlin .
[edit] Pavarotti at Hyde Park
As result of the success of his 1986 concerts promoted by Goldsmith, Pavrotti agreed to perform at a free concert in Hyde Park, which was organised by Goldsmith in 1991. This concert was part of Pavarotti's 30th anniversary celebrations and attracted 125,000 people[2].
[edit] Freddie Mercury Tribute, Aids awarness and National music day
In 1992 Goldsmith organised A Tribute to Freddie Mercury to increase Aids awareness and this was a live TV success. In the same year he became Chairman of the first National Music Day, which was instigated to promote the importance of music in UK and Goldsmith arranged a programme of fithteen hundred musical events nationwide, covering all musical styles.
[edit] Pavarotti returns and the Prague Heritage Fund Gala Classical Concert
Goldsmith persuaded Pavarotti to return and perform again in UK at the Leeds Castle in Kent during 1993. In 1994 under the auspices of HRH The Prince of Wales and President Havel of the Czech Republic, Goldsmith was appointed Executive Producer of The Prague Heritage Fund Gala Classical Concert. This concert featured Sir Georg Solti, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Murray Perahia also Gabriela Benackova and was televised worldwide.
[edit] Cirque du Soleil
In 1994 Harvey Goldsmith started to work with Cirque du Soleil. This has been one of most successful shows to perform in the UK, returning to London’s Royal Albert Hall on a regular basis. The show is seen by around 183,000 people and sells in the region of 98% of tickets. In 2005 Goldsmith managed the show in London, Birmingham and Manchester. This marked the first time in Europe for having three different productions in the same Country. He continues to promotes this show.
[edit] Lord of The Dance and Pavarotti returns a fourth time
Between 1996-1998 Harvey Goldsmith oversaw spectacular productions of the Lord of the Dance musical, featured Michael Flatley in the leading role. Goldsmith promoted Pavarotti for a fourth time, in Manchester during 1997
[edit] Bruce Springsteen 2002 and 2003
In October 2002 Harvey Goldsmith promoted Bruce Springsteen at Wembley Arena, with , the tickets for this show sold out in 40 minutes making it one of his most successful to date. This was followed by three sell out stadium shows in May 2003. In November 2006 Harvey produced the UK Arena dates of Bruce Springsteen’s sell-out tour with the Seeger Sessions band.
[edit] Merchants of Bollywood and current projects
Goldsmith presented the dance spectacular The Merchants of Bollywood, the first ever Bollywood production to tour straight from Film City in Mumbai. The show toured the UK and opened at the Hammersmith Apollo inLondon on December 21 2006. A six month tour of Europe followed in 2007.[1] He is currently working as a consultant for Anschutz Entertainment Group spearheading development of a new permanent exhibit called the British Music Experience which will open in Spring 2009 in The O2 Arena in London.
[edit] Other Promotions
[edit] Rock concerts
Harvey Goldsmith has produced, managed and promoted shows with most of the world’s major artists, as well as other successful acts including Genesis, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Bruce Springsteen, Santana, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles, Luciano Pavarotti, Sheryl Crow, Shania Twain, Bee Gees, Jools Holland, Marti Pellow, Oasis, Paul Weller, Rod Stewart, Diana Ross, Saxon, Shirley Bassey, Family, Ronan Keating, Gabrielle, Richard Hawley, U2, Coldplay, Nigel Kennedy, Eric Clapton, Richard Ashcroft, Ash, Asian Dub Foundation, Supergrass, Doves, Madness, Aswad, David Gray, Queen, Elton John, Streetwalkers, Black Eyed Peas, John Legend, Nelly Furtado, Scissor Sisters, Van Morrison, Madonna, Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, Whitesnake, Sting and many others.
As of 2009 Goldsmith is managing rock guitarist and friend Jeff Beck[3].
[edit] Awards
In January 2006 Harvey was awarded the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres from the French Minister of Culture.
In October 2006 Goldsmith was honoured with the 15th Music Industry Trust’s Award (MITS), one of the highest accolades to be awarded in the music industry, in recognition of his contribution to the music industry.[4]
In 2006, Midem[5] honoured The Live Aid founders and Live 8 producers Harvey Goldsmith, Sir Bob Geldof and John Kennedy OBE, with the Midem Personality of the Year Award, which was awarded in recognition of their outstanding work in bringing the music industry together to help alleviate poverty and famine in Africa. It was the first time in the seventeen year history of Midem, that this accolade was awarded to more than one person.[6]
In 2007 Goldsmith was awarded the CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, for his work in the entertainment industry.
At the 2008 Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards, Goldsmith was given a special VIP award for his contributions in the music and humanitarian spheres.[1]
[edit] Promotion companies
- In 1973 he formed Artiste Management Productions Limited, to produce and manage Artists in the Music Industry.[1]
- In 1976 Harvey Goldsmith Entertainments Limited was formed which became the UK’s leading Promoter of Concerts and Events.[1]
- In 2002 Harvey Goldsmith Productions was formed to carry on the legacy of leading Concert and Events promotions.[7]
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g "Harvey Goldsmith". harveygoldsmith.com. http://www.harveygoldsmith.com.
- ^ "Harvey Goldsmith". wayahead.com. http://www.wayahead.com/harveygoldmaj/profile.html. Retrieved on 2009-05-28.
- ^ BBC Desert Island Discs Harvey Goldsmith
- ^ "Harvey Goldsmith MITS award". bmi.com. http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/335051.
- ^ Midem (short for Marché International du Disque et de l'Edition Musicale) is the world's largest music industry trade fair, which has been held annually at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes since 1967
- ^ "Midem Press release for MPYA". musicdish.com. http://www.musicdish.com/mag/index.php3?id=10603. Retrieved on 2009-05-28.
- ^ Companies House UK
[edit] References
- Artiste Management Productions Harvey Goldsmith at wayahead.com
[edit] External links
- Music Week (2007-12-08) Harvey Goldsmith interview at musicweek.com
- Finn, Gary and McCann, Paul. The Independent (1999-09-30) Pavarotti tickets always read Harvey Goldsmith at independent.co.uk
- Lowery, Adrian. This is Money (2009-12-12) UK's top promoter slams ticket 'robbery' at thisismoney.co.uk
- Kemp, Ed (2008-02-05) Harvey Goldsmith marketing profile at brandrepublic.com
