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Artist and label manager Harry Maloney dies
By Chris Cooke | Published on Friday 29 November 2013
British music industry veteran and former BPI Council member Harry Maloney has died after a long battle with cancer.
Maloney worked in both artist and label management through his long career. Starting out in artist management in the early 1970s, he worked with the likes of Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, Uriah Heep and Eddie & The Hot Rods. He moved into the label side of things by joining BMG in 1993, and later became Chairman of music distributor the Apex Music Group.
His involvement with record label trade body the BPI began in 2004 when he worked for the organisation as Independent Members Manager, putting in place many of the initiatives that specifically service the association’s indie label members. And although he stepped down from his staff role at the BPI two years later, he subsequently joined the trade body’s Council after setting his own indie record company.
Paying tribute to Maloney yesterday, BPI Chairman Tony Wadsworth told Music Week: “Harry will be greatly missed by his many friends at BPI and the wider music community. Generous in spirit and always happy to oblige, Harry was a real music fan, loved by all and known for his sunny outlook that always lifted everyone around him”.
Maloney retired from the BPI Council earlier this year, and was presented with a commemorative disk at his retirement party in honour of his work for the record industry.
