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Awards
MPG award life membership to Keith Grant
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 23 February 2010
Oh, another award from the Music Producers’ Guild now, though this one is a lifetime membership rather than a gong at the recent MPG Awards. But its recipient was at the Guild’s big night out earlier this month, to collect the Joe Meek Award on behalf of the family of the late great Les Paul.
The recipient of which I speak is record producer Keith Grant, who has worked with the likes of Dusty Springfield, Barbra Streisand, Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis Jr, Sarah Vaughan, Frank Sinatra, Shirley Bassey, Cream, Pink Floyd, The Yardbirds, Sonny Boy Williamson, Procul Harum, The Faces, The Bee Gees, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, which, as CVs go, is pretty damn impressive. And if you’re not yet impressed, then you should note his work as a film mixer on ‘The Italian Job’, ‘The English Patient’, ‘Life Of Brian’, ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ and ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’.
Confirming Grant was being awarded with life membership, MPG director Mick Glossop told CMU: “We were delighted to see Keith at our recent 2010 Awards, where he accepted the Joe Meek Award on behalf of the late Les Paul. We are also delighted that he has accepted a lifetime membership of the Music Producers Guild because he is a perfect example of the creativity and talent that this organisation aims to promote”.
Grant himself added: “I am very honoured to receive a lifetime membership and to be asked to accept Les Paul’s Joe Meek Award, especially as I worked with Joe – a man with whom I had many things in common”.
