Born in Durban South Africa, the son of a renowned Ballet Teacher Nancy Graham who was involved in many many theatrical Productions throughout Nicky’s formative years. The family returned to the UK in 1960 where he finished his education at Kingston School of Art, a hot bed of musical activity.

Nicky’s career started in the 1965 when his band The End was discovered by Bill Wyman and subsequently toured with the Stones. He progressed through cult band Tucky Buzzard, who toured America with the likes of the Grand Funk Railroad and Deep Purple. Before giving up life on the road, Nicky played keyboards with David Bowie’s Spiders from Mars during the Ziggy Stardust UK tour.  The picture on the right was from Moonage Daydream with The Spiders back in 1972 from Dunstable.

Nicky then began a successful career as Staff Producer/A&R Manager first at Polydor Records, then a 10 year run at CBS Records where he Produced, among others, The Nolans ( 2 million album sales), David Essex, Barbara Dickson and Bonnie Tyler. He also Produced the cast albums of many musicals including the Original London Cast Recording of ‘Annie’.

In 1984 he went freelance, producing and writing albums for such varied artistes as Andy Williams (USA), Pedrito Fernandez (Mexico) and Matt Moffitt (Australia). In 1986 he discovered BROS for whom he wrote When Will I Be Famous, the No 1 single I Owe You Nothing and 2 albums which sold over 5 million copies. All of their singles were multi-platinum world-wide.

More successes were Let Loose, whose single Crazy for You was double platinum as well as their Platinum Debut Album ‘Let Loose’. Nicky also put Ant & Dec on the map by taking them from Byker Grove and on to the Pop Stage, writing and producing the double platinum selling Psyche album ( PJ & Duncan aka), including the hit singles Let’s Get Ready to Rhumble / Eternal Love / Why Me / If I Give You My number and Our Radio Rocks.

In 2001 Nicky became a Consultant to Sony Music where he was Director of A&R whilst retaining his Publishing and Production companies and continuing to serve the pop writing community for the past 12 years by his directorship of the PRS. During his return to A&R he signed platinum act The OperaBabes, Dame Shirley Bassey for her 50th Anniversary Album. He Produced Andy Williams duet with Denise Van Outen ‘Can’t Take My Eyes off You’ and the ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ Album from the Hit BBC Series featuring Bruce Forsyth. He also Produced Shakin’ Stevens latest album and Wrote and Produced Julio Iglesias for his latest English Language album.

Other recent projects outside of Sony have been Darius ( Pop Idol ) No 1 Single ‘Colourblind’ and platinum album ‘Dive In’ as well as Sinead Quinn ( Fame Academy ) No 2 single ‘ I Can’t Breakdown ‘ all for Mercury Records, Triple 8 for Polydor and Katie Price and Peter Andre’s album ‘A Whole New World’.

Nicky has been the A&R Consultant to the BBC on Eurovision for 2003 to 2005 and 2008 working with Jessica Garlick/ James Fox / Javine and Andy Abraham.

Nicky is currently working on a new Act called ‘Punch & Judys’ with Tom Watkins ( Pet Shop Boys/Bros/ E17) for release summer 2009. A musical about the Life of Marc Bolan is complete and Nicky has written the Libretto. It is hoped to stage the musical in the West End early in 2010.

Brian Dunham did his 3 year apprenticeship in Rights Administration in the Music industry whilst at the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society between 1966 and 1969. Having gravitated to the smaller Independent Company in the 1970's he then operated independently for the past 20 plus years. He is known for his networking and inter-personal skills and has built long-standing relationships within the music industry.

After working at CBS Records he joined Chrysalis Music as Administration Manager, and went on to successfully negotiate a steep learning curve working for a vibrant UK Independent Company from 1974 to 1977, surrounded by artists as diverse as Jethro Tull, Ten Years After, Leo Sayer, Steeleye Span, The Climax Blues Band and Frankie Miller.

Brian was offered the chance to run a small Publishing Company called Marksman Music for the hugely successful song-writer Barry Mason.  He grasped the opportunity and worked with Tony and Gaynor Sadler and Justin de Villenueve.  Brian worked at Marksman Music for 15 months before joining Virgin Music as their Copyright Manager and embarked on another steep learning curve using his core skills in Copyright and Publishing Catalogue Administration.

Whilst at virgin he worked with Simon Draper, Ken Berry and of course Richard Branson.  Working in such an active, acquisitive and thrusting company he picked up new skills almost by osmosis.  He worked up to a General Manager position and was instrumental in setting up the systems in the Paris and Los Angeles offices of Virgin Music and generally setting up the International Representation for the catalogue.  Brian worked on the Licensing of Artists such as The Police, The Human League, ABC, Culture Club, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Mike Oldfield, The Ruts, The Members, Leon Russell and tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. 

In 1982 Brian left to use his skills in Music Licensing and as an Independent Licensing Consultant specialising in Rights Licensing for Music Television.  From 1982 to 1984 he worked on "The History of Rock", "Soul Train", "Earsay", "Top C's and Tiaras" and "The A-Z of Country Music".  Brian was invited to join Mercury Music - Music Publishing Division of Granada TV as their Catalogue Development Executive.  During this spell with Granada TV he was asked to sort out the rights for release of the 'Marc' TV series in video format.  It was during these negotiations that Brian was offered the opportunity to work with the Wizard Music [Publishing] Catalogue.

Brian added to his skill set by working with Trilion Pictures Limited where 50% of the job involved negotiating Sync Licenses and dealing with Artists Management and liaising with venues and musicians arranging video shoots for the Late Night London TV series.  Fol,owing this venture Brian ran a small publishing company called Tembo Music for Roger Whittaker.  He was still hugely successful in Germany but was looking for fresh initiatives in the USA.  during these two years with Tembo Music, Brian placed an album deal with Heartland Records for Roger Whittaker and arranged the video shoot for the advert that went out across the US on TV.  the album went on to sell over a million copies in the US.

Having started work with Wizard Music [Publishing] Catalogue back in 1985, Brian began immersing himself in promoting the catalogue for synchronisation usages.  The breakthrough came in 1992 when the Ad Agency approached John Bramley seeking to use 20th Century Boy in the Levi's advert.  This became the springboard from which Marc's music was re-born and spread around the world via the media of film and television.

It was in the early 1990's that "Born To Boogie - The Movie" was released on VHS through Picture Music International but it only enjoyed a modest success.  In 1998 Brian started the ball rolling aimed at releasing a DVD version of the film.  Eventually the recognition of Rolan Bolan's entitlement to share in the benefits from any re-issue of the movie in DVD format enabled Brian to strike the deal with Ringo Starr and Sanctuary.

Brian was appointed Executive Producer to bring this project to fruition.  He managed to, aided and abetted by, the ubiquitous Martin Barden, bring together such important people as Tony Visconti, Bill Legend and, of course, Rolan Bolan, to work with Sanctuary. Together they put Marc Bolan & T.Rex back at the top of the charts and back on the top shelf with the release in May 2005 of the cleaned up and restored full version of "Born to Boogie - The Movie" plus extras.

In the 2000's Brian has co-produced numerous Marc Bolan projects including...

• The sell-out concert at the Shepherds Bush Empire in 2007 named "The Celebration".  The show was recorded for release on DVD through Liberation and will be made available again through Demon.
• “Bolanesque” – a Marc Bolan meets Cirque du Soleil Cabaret Show at the Café de Paris to celebrate what would have been Marc Bolan’s 60^th birthday.

Brian has always had a vision to unite the best T.Rex songs into a musical .  This brings us to date where between Brian and Nicky they intend to realise this vision  and bring Marc Bolan's life and music to the West End theatre stage.