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Light falls on music's unsung heroes

Source: The Guardian

Oct 28, 2009

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After years of headlines about industry excesses and legal wrangles, awards show another side to the music machine

For 36 years the Gold Badge awards have been a low-key affair conducted behind closed doors – a quiet nod of appreciation to the unsung heroes of the recording industry.

But after years of headlines about greedy executives and excessive megastars, wranglings about copyright and filesharing, the awards organisers wanted to show another side to the music machine.

More than 300 industry professionals – from producers to publicists, songwriters to arrangers – gathered in the fading opulence of the Park Lane Hotel's art deco ballroom today, with not a single A-list celebrity in sight.

"For every big name, every star, there are tens if not hundreds of people working behind them; today is about celebrating those people," said Patrick Rackow, chief executive of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (Basca), who hosted the event.

One of the most instantly recognisable – if not exactly fashionable – award winners, the television presenter an

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