As guitars resonate at festivals again and Universal Music prepares to go public on September 21 in Amsterdam, a thunderclap strikes from London.
"I would love to buy the songs of Françoise Hardy, Jacques Dutronc, Charles Aznavour, Joe Dassin, Téléphone, Air, Daft Punk, Justice, Jacques Brel, Georges Moustaki, Charles Trenet, Édith Piaf, Serge Gainsbourg, Renaud and the Rita Mitsouko,
announces in
Figaro
Merck Mercuriadis, the founder of Hipgnosis.
I want to help them manage their hits. With 88 specialists to manage 64,000 songs, my company is better suited than multinationals which have small teams for millions of songs. ”
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