Music is entering the heritage phase of rock and pop. The repertoire is enormous. The songs have proved their durability. But the original creators are gradually retiring from the stage.

The music, however, remains. And just as classical music has generations of performers interpreting Beethoven or Chopin or Stravinsky, so popular music will inevitably develop generations of performers interpreting Pink Floyd, Bowie, Prince, Lennon, Guns N Roses, Madonna or George Michael.

At Legacy World Artists, at the same time as keeping the great repertoire of rock and pop alive, we want to build the names of these new performers, all of them talented musicians who are not imitating, but interpreting.

Performers and original artists will be billed equally, the contemporary interpreter and the original creator, just as is done in the classical world. For instance: Eric Plast sings Freddy Mercury or Alison Sale performs the music of Tina Turner; just as in the classical world the billing might be Glenn Gould plays the Rachmaninov 2nd Piano Concerto.

Behind Legacy World Artists there are three people with an enormous amount of industry experience

NEIL O' BRIEN

The founder and managing director of Neil O' Brien Entertainment, which books artist's tours and events worldwide. Neil has been a live music professional for more than 35 years and was previously employed at The Agency Group, London. His experience includes programming live music venues and festivals including Brixton Academy, Shepherds Bush Empire, London Astoria, Mean Fiddler, Forum, Clapham Grand, Subterania, Sound Republic and Scala venues. He has also been responsible for programming open air music events including Reading, Phoenix and Madstock (Madness), Kew The Music and Greenwich Music Time.


SIMON NAPIER-BELL

Simon Napier-Bell is rock manager, author, film maker and public speaker. Artists he has managed include The Yardbirds, Jeff Beck, Ultravox, T Rex, Marc Bolan, Japan, Asia, Candi Staton, Boney M, Sinead O'Connor, Wham, and George Michael. He also co-wrote the song You Don't Have To Say You Love Me, has written five best-selling books on the music business and directed five music-based documentary films for Netflix and Sky Arts. With Harry Cowell, he created the Las Vegas show Raiding the Rock Vault, in which some of the world's greatest rock stars performed great rock classics. It ran for 12 years and was voted 'Best in Vegas' during each one of them.


SIR HARRY COWELL

Once a drummer, then tour manager, then manager, Harry at various times played drums on tour for Dollar, The Stranglers, and Martha & the Muffins. He was then drum tech and/or tour manager for AC/DC. Ozzy Osbourne, The Passions, Genesis and The Police. Together with Simon Napier-Bell, he managed Ultravox and Asia. Then ran Rive Droite Music for five years, and was instrumental in signing Katherine Jenkins, Errol Brown, Heather Small, and Ayo Beatz. From 2011, for 14 years, he produced and ran the Las Vegas show Raiding the Rock Vault, then devised and produced its sister show, Raiding the Country Vault, in Branson, Missouri. He also owned and ran Stone Room Studios.