Tony Hall (music executive)
Anthony Salvin Hall (1 April 1928 – 26 June 2019) was a British music business executive, columnist, record producer, TV presenter and radio disc jockey.
Biography
Hall was born in
He soon took responsibility for reviving the subsidiary
Ike and Tina Turner's "River Deep โ Mountain High", a record which had failed in the US but became a major hit in the UK.[3][4]
Hall left Decca in 1967, and formed the UK's first independent promotion company, Tony Hall Enterprises, which was responsible for promoting acts including
The Real Thing, Loose Ends, and Lynden David Hall in the 1980s and 1990s. He wrote for Jazzwise magazine till 2018.[3]
He died in 2019, aged 91.[4]
References
- ^ Jazz Journal International, vol.61, 2008, p.16
- ^ a b David Taylor, British Modern Jazz: Tony Hall Archived 2013-06-16 at archive.today. Retrieved 18 May 2013
- ^ a b c Charles Waring, The Hall way, Record Collector, no.413, April 2013, pp.56-63
- ^ a b c d Peter Robinson, "Tony Hall Obituary", The Guardian, 4 July 2019. Retrieved 19 August 2019