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catatoniaone · 05-14-2008, 10:01 PM

Fuller leads winners at MMF Roll of Honour

00:01 | Thursday May 15, 2008
By Paul Williams

Jazz Summers last night led the salutes to Simon Fuller as the American Idol creator picked up the main prize at the MMF Roll of Honour.

Fuller, CEO of 19 Entertainment, received the Peter Grant Award for outstanding management at the event at London’s Intercontinental Hotel, following in the footsteps of such names as Bill Curbishley, Paul McGuinness and Tony Smith.
MMF chairman Summers, who won the award himself in 2003, said, “We are delighted that Simon Fuller has agreed to accept our highest honour. His considerable achievements over 20 years cannot be underestimated.”

Ian McAndrew and Geoff Barradale were named managers of the year for their work with Arctic Monkeys and Reverend and the Makers, while Sharleen Spiteri handed Bernard Butler the producer of the year award in recognition of his work with the 1990’s, Cajun Dance Party, Black Kids and Duffy who has the biggest-selling single and album of the year to date in the UK with, respectively, Mercy and Rockferry.

Geffen Records’ US-based head Ron Fair, who worked in London in the 1980s and has helped to launch the careers of a number of UK acts in the States, was inducted into the MMF Roll of Honour. He was joined by MMF co-founder Dennis Muirhead, who was the organisation’s first chairman, and MMF director of copyright and contracts and Howard Jones’ manager David Stopps.

The Nettwerk Group’s CEO Terry McBride, whose company’s roster includes Dido, Avril Lavigne and Stereophonics, was named international manager of the year, while Radiohead’s commercial arm Sandbag won the newly-introduced innovation of the year award for its work on the band’s In Rainbows album.