From Billboard:
Music industry veteran Bob Mercer, the British CEO of the NOW compilation business in the U.S., has died aged 65.
Mercer was headhunted by EMI from General Foods in the early ’70s and tasked with shaking up the major’s marketing.
He went on to become managing director and signed artists at EMI including Queen, Kate Bush, Marc Bolan and Olivia Newton-John in the ’70s.
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