Radiohead manager and rewriting the music industry rules

By Rory Jones

Here's our new record, pay what you like ... Radiohead turned the music industry on its head with its online release. The band's manager is here to tell all about it, Rory Jones writes

Radiohead has a message for the modern recording industry: all the old rules are off.

Brian Message, the band's co-manager, will spell that out clearly tonight at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit.

Mr Message, a pioneer of selling music in the digital age, has helped to orchestrate the band's unusual approach to sales.

Given the widespread piracy problem in the Middle East and relative lack of copyright enforcement, regional music executives will gain important insights from what he has to say.

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