Harvey Goldsmith

Harvey Goldsmith
Born	May 4, 1946(1946-05-04) Edgware, London, UK
Nationality	British
Citizenship	UK
Occupation	Promoter of The Performing Arts
Years active	1966-present
Employer	Harvey Goldsmith Entertainments Ltd Harvey Goldsmith Productions Ltd Artiste Management Productions Ltd
Known for	Performing Arts promotions, Live Aid, Live 8
Title	Harvey Goldsmith CBE
Website Harveygoldsmith.com

Harvey Goldsmith CBE (born 4 May 1946 in Edgware, London) is a British performing arts promoter. He is best known for the rock concerts, charity concerts, television broadcasts for the Prince's Trust and more recently the Teenage Cancer Trust shows at the Royal Albert Hall. During Spring 2007 he appeared on the Channel 4 programme Get Your Act Together with Harvey Goldsmith. In October the same year he promoted a reunion concert for surviving members of Led Zeppelin in memory of Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegün, which was held at held at the The The O₂ Arena.^[1]

Contents 1 Student years and later success 1966-1977 1.1 Briton Metropole and Cystal Palace Garden Parties 2 Career 2.1 Concerts for Kampuchea and Live Aid 2.2 Fundraising post Live Aid 2.3 Prince's Trust 1982-present 2.4 Luciano Pavarotti and Pink Floyd 2.5 Pavarotti at Hyde Park 2.6 Freddie Mercury Tribute, Aids awarness and National music day 2.7 Pavarotti returns and the Prague Heritage Fund Gala Classical Concert 2.8 Cirque du Soleil 2.9 Lord of The Dance and Pavarotti returns a fourth time 2.10 Bruce Springsteen 2002 and 2003 2.11 Merchants of Bollywood and current projects 3 Other Promotions 3.1 Rock concerts 4 Awards 5 Promotion companies 6 Notes 7 References 8 External links

Student years and later success 1966-1977

Briton Metropole and Cystal Palace Garden Parties

He started out as a pharmacy student in Brighton^[1] where he founded Club 66 , a successful weekly student live music venue and organised larger events at the Brighton Metropole. By the end of that decade Goldsmith had created rock music events, such as the Crystal Palace Garden Parties and The fourteen hour Technicolor Dream. A decade later the concerts had moved to larger Stadiums and he had established Wembley Stadium as a major venue for the top artists of the world.

Career

Concerts for Kampuchea and Live Aid

During 1978 Goldsmith promoted the first major global TV event The Concerts for Kampuchea at Hammersmith Odeon, featuring artists including Paul McCartney, Queen and The Who. The event raised over $2 million from worldwide sales. In 1985, Goldsmith organised Live Aid with Bob Geldof which became a £140 million fundraising venture within ten weeks , uniting the World through Music . Live Aid was the first ever "Global Juke Box" and featured two simultaneous concerts, at Wembley Stadium and JFK Stadium, with over sixty countries carrying seventeen hours of Live Television.

Fundraising post Live Aid

Goldsmith has developed popular music as a successful means of fundraising. Following the success of Live Aid Goldsmith became involved with concerts in aid of Human Rights, including a worldwide Amnesty Tour.

Prince's Trust 1982-present

Harvey Goldsmith joined the The Prince's Trust in 1982 and produced the first Princes Trust Rock Gala. Goldsmith then became a member of the The Princes Trust Board and Vice Chairman of Princes Trust Trading Ltd.^[1]

Luciano Pavarotti and Pink Floyd

In 1986, he promoted Luciano Pavarotti at Wembley Arena. It was because of Goldsmith's expertise in staging charity events that his company Harvey Goldsmith Artiste Management productions was brought in as Executive Producers of the 1990 performance of Pink Floyd's the wall, from Berlin .

Pavarotti at Hyde Park

As result of the success of his 1986 concerts promoted by Goldsmith, Pavrotti agreed to perform at a free concert in Hyde Park, which was organised by Goldsmith in 1991. This concert was part of Pavarotti's 30th anniversary celebrations and attracted 125,000 people^[2].

Freddie Mercury Tribute, Aids awarness and National music day

In 1992 Goldsmith organised A Tribute to Freddie Mercury to increase Aids awareness and this was a live TV success. In the same year he became Chairman of the first National Music Day, which was instigated to promote the importance of music in UK and Goldsmith arranged a programme of fithteen hundred musical events nationwide, covering all musical styles.

Pavarotti returns and the Prague Heritage Fund Gala Classical Concert

Goldsmith persuaded Pavarotti to return and perform again in UK at the Leeds Castle in Kent during 1993. In 1994 under the auspices of HRH The Prince of Wales and President Havel of the Czech Republic, Goldsmith was appointed Executive Producer of The Prague Heritage Fund Gala Classical Concert. This concert featured Sir Georg Solti, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Murray Perahia also Gabriela Benackova and was televised worldwide.

Cirque du Soleil

In 1994 Harvey Goldsmith started to work with Cirque du Soleil. This has been one of most successful shows to perform in the UK, returning to London’s Royal Albert Hall on a regular basis. The show is seen by around 183,000 people and sells in the region of 98% of tickets. In 2005 Goldsmith managed the show in London, Birmingham and Manchester. This marked the first time in Europe for having three different productions in the same Country. He continues to promotes this show.

Lord of The Dance and Pavarotti returns a fourth time

Between 1996-1998 Harvey Goldsmith oversaw spectacular productions of the Lord of the Dance musical, featured Michael Flatley in the leading role. Goldsmith promoted Pavarotti for a fourth time, in Manchester during 1997

Bruce Springsteen 2002 and 2003

In October 2002 Harvey Goldsmith promoted Bruce Springsteen at Wembley Arena, with , the tickets for this show sold out in 40 minutes making it one of his most successful to date. This was followed by three sell out stadium shows in May 2003. In November 2006 Harvey produced the UK Arena dates of Bruce Springsteen’s sell-out tour with the Seeger Sessions band.

Merchants of Bollywood and current projects

Goldsmith presented the dance spectacular The Merchants of Bollywood, the first ever Bollywood production to tour straight from Film City in Mumbai. The show toured the UK and opened at the Hammersmith Apollo inLondon on December 21 2006. A six month tour of Europe followed in 2007.^[1] He is currently working as a consultant for Anschutz Entertainment Group spearheading development of a new permanent exhibit called the British Music Experience which will open in Spring 2009 in The O₂ Arena in London.

Other Promotions

Rock concerts

Harvey Goldsmith has produced, managed and promoted shows with most of the world’s major artists, as well as other successful acts including Genesis, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Bruce Springsteen, Santana, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles, Luciano Pavarotti, Sheryl Crow, Shania Twain, Bee Gees, Jools Holland, Marti Pellow, Oasis, Paul Weller, Rod Stewart, Diana Ross, Saxon, Shirley Bassey, Family, Ronan Keating, Gabrielle, Richard Hawley, U2, Coldplay, Nigel Kennedy, Eric Clapton, Richard Ashcroft, Ash, Asian Dub Foundation, Supergrass, Doves, Madness, Aswad, David Gray, Queen, Elton John, Streetwalkers, Black Eyed Peas, John Legend, Nelly Furtado, Scissor Sisters, Van Morrison, Madonna, Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, Whitesnake, Sting and many others.

As of 2009 Goldsmith is managing rock guitarist and friend Jeff Beck^[3].

Awards

In January 2006 Harvey was awarded the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres from the French Minister of Culture.

In October 2006 Goldsmith was honoured with the 15th Music Industry Trust’s Award (MITS), one of the highest accolades to be awarded in the music industry, in recognition of his contribution to the music industry.^[4]

In 2006, Midem^[5] honoured The Live Aid founders and Live 8 producers Harvey Goldsmith, Sir Bob Geldof and John Kennedy OBE, with the Midem Personality of the Year Award, which was awarded in recognition of their outstanding work in bringing the music industry together to help alleviate poverty and famine in Africa. It was the first time in the seventeen year history of Midem, that this accolade was awarded to more than one person.^[6]

In 2007 Goldsmith was awarded the CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, for his work in the entertainment industry.

At the 2008 Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards, Goldsmith was given a special VIP award for his contributions in the music and humanitarian spheres.^[1]

Promotion companies

• In 1973 he formed Artiste Management Productions Limited, to produce and manage Artists in the Music Industry.^[1]
• In 1976 Harvey Goldsmith Entertainments Limited was formed which became the UK’s leading Promoter of Concerts and Events.^[1]
• In 2002 Harvey Goldsmith Productions was formed to carry on the legacy of leading Concert and Events promotions.^[7]

Notes

References

• Artiste Management Productions Harvey Goldsmith at wayahead.com

External links

• Music Week (2007-12-08) Harvey Goldsmith interview at musicweek.com
• Finn, Gary and McCann, Paul. The Independent (1999-09-30) Pavarotti tickets always read Harvey Goldsmith at independent.co.uk
• Lowery, Adrian. This is Money (2009-12-12) UK's top promoter slams ticket 'robbery' at thisismoney.co.uk
• Kemp, Ed (2008-02-05) Harvey Goldsmith marketing profile at brandrepublic.com