David Platz
David Platz (January 13, 1929 – May 20, 1994) was a German-born British music publisher and music business executive who established and led Essex Music, one of the major independent music publishing companies of the 1960s and 1970s.[1] He also set up the Fly and Cube record labels.[1]
Biography
He was born in
The company quickly became successful, and Platz attracted a wide variety of musicians to use the agency, including
He also helped finance and develop stage musicals, including working with Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley on Stop the World – I Want to Get Off in 1962 and The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd in 1964.[1] Essex Music also worked with record producers and bands, licensing their records to major label subsidiaries such as Deram and Regal Zonophone, before Platz established the Fly label in 1970. The label had commercial success in the UK, notably with T. Rex, before the band left the label and Platz re-launched it in 1972 as Cube Records.[4][5]
Between 1973 and 1986, Platz was the publishing director of the
References
- ^ ISBN 1-85227-937-0.
- ISBN 9780857121172– via Google Books.
- ^ Cash Box. William and Mary Libraries Special Collections Research Center. Cash Box Pub. Co. 27 August 1955.
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: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ a b c Obituary by Brian Willey, The Independent, 4 June 1994. Retrieved 28 June 2013
- ^ a b c "David Platz | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved 26 October 2019.