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Geffen UK chief to exit Universal
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 13 April 2011
Colin Barlow, the Universal Music exec who oversaw the launch of a Geffen label in the UK, will leave the music major later this year according to Music Week. It is thought Barlow will head to Sony Music, there being quite an executive swap going on between the two majors at the moment on both sides of the Atlantic. As previously reported, the MD of Sony’s Epic UK division, Nick Raphael, is shifting over to Universal. It would be unfair of me to only name the charmless boy band that is The Wanted – aka the Capital Radio group – as an output of Barlow’s time running Geffen, but look, I just did it.
