Andy Taylor, co-manager of the
British
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band
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band formed in Leyton, East London, in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris. While fluid in the early years of the band, the lineup for most of the band's history has consisted of Harri ...
and co-founder in 1979 of
Sanctuary Records
Sanctuary Records Group Limited was a record label based in the United Kingdom and is as of 2013 a subsidiary of BMG Rights Management solely for reissues. Until June 2007, it was the largest independent record label in the UK and the largest m ...
, which described itself, as of January 2007, as the
UK's largest independent record company, one of the world's leading developers of music
intellectual property
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rights (IPR) and the world's largest independent owner of music IPR.
Trojan Records Celebrates 40th Anniversary
2 May 2007 The company was named after the Iron Maiden song "Sanctuary
A sanctuary, in its original meaning, is a sacred place, such as a shrine. By the use of such places as a haven, by extension the term has come to be used for any place of safety. This secondary use can be categorized into human sanctuary, a saf ...
". His business partner is Rod Smallwood
Roderick Charles Smallwood (born 17 February 1950) is an English music manager, best known as the co-manager of the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden. With his business partner, Andy Taylor, whom he met while studying at Trinity College, Ca ...
, whom he met when students at Trinity College, Cambridge
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.
References
External links
Official Sanctuary Management website
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My Time at Cambridge
, interview and profile of Andy Taylor, Cambridge Alumni Magazine, 2005
Iron Maiden (band)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Place of birth missing (living people)
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