Peter Jenner
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Peter Jenner (born 1943) is a British music manager and a record producer. Jenner, Andrew King and the original four members of Pink Floyd were partners in Blackhill Enterprises.
Early career
After gaining a first-class honours degree in Economics from the University of Cambridge, Jenner, at the age of 21, worked as lecturer at the London School of Economics. After four years at the LSE he left to manage the then up-and-coming band Pink Floyd. Jenner put on a number of free concerts in London's Hyde Park which included the 1969 concert by The Rolling Stones.[1]
Management career
Jenner has managed Pink Floyd, T Rex, Ian Dury, Roy Harper, The Clash, The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, Robyn Hitchcock, Baaba Maal, Sarah Jane Morris and Eddi Reader (Fairground Attraction). Jenner has also managed Billy Bragg for more than 15 years[when?].[2]
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd, then an unknown band, began to receive paid bookings including at the Marquee Club in March 1966 where they were watched by Jenner. The band played mostly rhythm and blues songs, but Jenner was impressed with the strange acoustic effects that Barrett and Wright created during their performance.[3] Jenner traced Waters and Mason to their flat,[4] and with his business partner and friend Andrew King was subsequently invited to become their manager. Although the pair had little experience of the music industry, they shared an appreciation of music, as well as a childhood history. Using inherited money they set up Blackhill Enterprises and purchased new instruments for the band, as well as equipment which included a Selmer PA system.[5] Under their guidance, Pink Floyd began performing on London's underground music scene, notably at a venue booked by the London Free School in Notting Hill. Jenner and King's diverse array of social connections were meritorious, gaining the band important coverage in The Financial Times and The Sunday Times.[6] Jenner's voice can be heard at the start of Pink Floyd's 1967 "Astronomy Domine", the opening track on the album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.[7]
Jenner and King formed a partnership with Pink Floyd called Blackhill Enterprises.[8] After Syd Barrett's departure from Pink Floyd in 1968 Jenner and King broke up with Pink Floyd and continued as managers for other British rock bands.[8]
Sincere Management
After Blackhill Enterprises disintegrated in the early 1980s, Jenner and his wife Sumi set up Sincere Management which managed a range of artists including Billy Bragg, Eddi Reader, Sarah Jane Morris, Robyn Hitchcock, The Unbending Trees, and Outside Royalty.[9]
Current work
Jenner continues to work at Sincere Management and is the Secretary General of the International Music Managers' Forum,[10] a director of the UK Music Managers' Forum and is involved in the Featured Artists Coalition.[11]
In August 2010, he wrote for the Labour Uncut website, during the guest editorship of Tom Watson MP.[12]
On copyright
Jenner has been interviewed on copyright by NetzpolitikTV[13] and for the documentary Good Copy Bad Copy.[14] An extensive interview with the Future of Music Coalition about copyright and technology is available as a podcast as part of the Coalition's podcast series[15]
References
- ^ Musictank speakers biographies
- ^ Musictank speakers biographies
- ^ Mason, Nick (2005), Philip Dodd (ed.), Inside Out - A Personal History of Pink Floyd (Paperback ed.), Phoenix, pp. 33–37, ISBN 0753819066
- ^ Schaffner, Nicholas (1991), Saucerful of Secrets (1 ed.), London : Sidgwick & Jackson, p. 17, ISBN 0283061278
- ^ Schaffner, Nicholas (1991), Saucerful of Secrets (1 ed.), London : Sidgwick & Jackson, pp. 32–33, ISBN 0283061278
- ^ Mason, Nick (2005), Philip Dodd (ed.), Inside Out - A Personal History of Pink Floyd (Paperback ed.), Phoenix, pp. 52–53, ISBN 0753819066
- ^ Pink Floyd who is who
- ^ a b Mabbett, Andy (2010), Pink Floyd - The Music and the Mystery, London: Omnibus, ISBN 9781849383707
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- ^ Musictank speakers biographies
- ^ The Great Escape Peter jenner biography
- ^ Jenner, Peter (2010-08-20). "Changing the record on politics: Peter Jenner talks sex and drugs and rock and roll « Labour Uncut". Labour Uncur. Retrieved 24 August 2010.
- ^ NetzpolitikTV: Interview with Peter Jenner about Copyright in the digital age
- ^ Good Copy Bad Copy credits
- ^ Future of Music Coalitiona's Podcast Interview Series: Peter Jenner
External links
- Remix Culture Symposium 2005: Panel 3: Creativity and the Commons (inc. Peter Jenner)
- NetzpolitikTV: Interview with Peter Jenner about Copyright in the digital age
- Big labels are f*cked, and DRM is dead Andrew Orlowski, The Register - Nov 3.2006.
- Jenner: $50 Per Year from Every Music Fan Would Save/Reinvent Music Industry Eliot Van Buskirk, WIRED - March 15, 2007.
- Peter Jenner: Thoughts on why the ISPs need an Access to Music Charge James Martin, posted - March 14, 2008.
- £30 'licence fee' set to revolutionise illegal file-sharing Nigel Morris, The Independent - July 24, 2008.
