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Nick Heath
Born
Nicholas Heath

(1949-03-25) 25 March 1949 (age 75)
London, UK

Nick Heath is a British music, television and film producer, and founder of Birdland Film. His father was bandleader Ted Heath.

The entertainment business has always been a part of Heath’s life. He was born in London into a musical family with his father, Ted Heath a big band leader (Ted Heath and His Music) and his mother, Moira Tracey, a lyricist.

Aside from the entertainment industry Heath is also a designer – one of his projects was listed as part of London’s Annual Open House for the ‘Best Buildings In The City’.

Music

He joined Robbins Music Corporation – the music publishing division of MGM Films – in the A&R department and was initially responsible for managing the company’s entire film soundtrack division including sound tracks:


Establishing and heading up a contemporary song writing division, which subsequently became EMI Music Publishing, Heath worked with John Sebastian (Lovin’ Spoonful) "Do You Believe In Magic", "Summer In The City", "Daydream", Tim Hardin "Reason To Believe", "If I Were A Carpenter" "Misty Roses", Mickey Gallagher (Peter Frampton; Ian Dury & The Blockheads) "Show Me The Way", "Baby I Love Your Way", John Turnbull (Ian Dury & The Blockheads) "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick".

He formed the artiste management company, Firework, signing Scottish band Pilot, who linked up with producer Alan Parsons (The Alan Parsons Project; Al Stewart "The Year of The Cat", Cockney Rebel "Come Up and See Me Sometime", John Miles "Music", "Eye In The Sky") who scored chart success with their songs "Magic" (#5 USA/RIAA Gold Award; #11 UK; #3 Australia; #5 Canada/Silver Award) and "January" (#1 UK/Gold Award; #1 Australia/Gold Award; #1 Netherlands/Gold Award).

Following this he formed Rialto Records, an independent record label, who had chart success with The Korgis "If I Had You" #13 UK; "Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime" #5 UK/Silver Award; #1 Spain/Gold Award; #1 France/Platinum Award; #1 Netherlands/Gold Award; #18 USA) The Planets "Lines" #36 UK; The Regents "7 Teen" #11 UK and The Mobiles "Drowning In Berlin" #9 UK. Rialto Art, a division of the record company under his direction, became an award winning design agency with D&AD art direction nominations/awards for The Korgis "Dumb Waiters", Slow Twitch Fibres "Face The Music", The Korgis "If It’s Alright With You Baby", The Korgis "The Korgis" and The Walkie Talkies "Cover Up".

Television

Joining up with Nick Austin (Beggars Banquet Records) and Mike Appleton (BAFTA award winning executive producer of The Old Grey Whistle Test & Live Aid) at The Landscape Channel, he executive produced the ‘Art of Landscape’ series providing UK national broadcaster Channel 4 Television with more than 200 hours of daytime music television programming.

Film

Moving into the film industry Heath formed a partnership with Nora Ephron ("When Harry Met Sally", "Sleepless In Seattle", "You've Got Mail", "Julie & Julia") having acquired the rights to Elizabeth McCracken’s national book award nominee "The Giant’s House", and subsequently had a development deal with Columbia Pictures in addition to a UK development deal with Polygram/Universal.

Forming a new film production company Birdland Film in 2010, Heath continues to develop films, often with a strong musical content – Birdland’s first feature to be directed by Irish director Terry Loane ("MickeyBo & Me"), "Bigger than Jesus" is scheduled to commence shooting in 2011.

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