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Another EMI publishing exec moved into a top recordings role
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 7 October 2010
Dan McCarroll danced a little jig yesterday. Right in the middle of 5th Avenue, New York. It was just a little jig. Not a big jig. That would have been overly flamboyant. But it was a nice jig, that I can confirm. And don’t worry, he didn’t get run over. He jigged in such a way that traffic could continue to pass on both sides. It was a very clever jig.
And why the jigging? Well, he was celebrating of course, because he’s just been promoted to the job of President of EMI’s Capitol & Virgin Label Group for the whole of North America. We know this because EMI top geezer Roger Faxon confirmed it to be so. The Fax was on the phone first thing yesterday to say “The man Dan is my creative guy in publishing no longer, he’s now my top records dude”. Or words to that effect. I wasn’t really listening if I’m being honest, I was too buys watching web cam footage of the jig.
It’s an interesting appointment, I suppose, because it sees Faxon – formerly boss of EMI Music Publishing and now top man of the whole of EMI, of course – slip another of his publishing executives into a senior role in the music major’s recordings division. And two of the EMI label’s existing US A&R chiefs, Steven Melrose and Leonard Brooks, will depart to make room. McCarroll’s task, it seems, is to “reinvigorate” the EMI record labels’ creative performance in the US. He better stop jigging and get on with it, then.
Faxon also told us: “Dan has an unswerving commitment to putting the artists and repertoire back into A&R. He has demonstrated a phenomenal ability to work in partnership with artistic talent in order to create positive outcomes for the people he represents. It is this passion and commitment that makes Dan stand out, and that will make him such a success in this new role”.
For legal reasons, we must point out McCarroll did not really rush out of EMI’s New York headquarters to dance a celebratory jig as soon as his promotion was confirmed yesterday. No, that would be too much fun.
