Nicky Graham

Songwriter / Music Producer / Publisher /
Artist Manager/ and A&R Executive.

Born in Durban South Africa, the son of a renowned Ballet Teacher Nancy Graham, who was involved in 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 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.                                   

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 50^th 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 Autumn 2009.

• 20^th Century Boy – The Musical, about the Life of Marc Bolan is complete and Nicky has written the Libretto. The Show begins a UK Tour in Feb 2010 and It is hoped to stage the musical in the West End in the Autumn of 2010.

• Other projects include recording an album with Lee Mead Autumn 2009.

Sept  2009

Brian Dunham

Music Publisher

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 joined Virgin Music as their Copyright Manager Brian worked his way up to the General Manager position and had the pleasure of working with 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 then ran a small publishing company called Tembo Music for Roger Whittaker.  Roger 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.  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.  After 6 years of persistence Brian managed to strike the deal with Ringo Starr and Sanctuary to secure re-issue of the movie in DVD format.

Brian was appointed Executive Producer to bring this project to fruition.  He managed to bring together such people as Tony Visconti, Bill Legend and, of course, Rolan Bolan –  all very important in the Bolan world - 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 up to the present time where between Brian and Nicky Graham hope to realise this vision and bring Marc Bolan's life and music to the West End theatre stage.

Sept  2009