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HARVEY GOLDSMITH CBE |
| Harvey Goldsmith remains the number one promoter in the UK. He began his career in the entertainment industry in 1966 & by 1973 formed Artiste Management Productions Ltd to produce & manage artists within the music industry. |
| 1976: Harvey Goldsmith Entertainments Ltd was formed & became the UK's leading promoter of concerts & events. |
| 1982: Harvey joined the Princes Trust & produced the first Princes Trust Rock Gala. He then became a member of the Princes Trust Board & Vice Chairman of Princes Trust Trading Ltd. |
| 1985: Harvey Goldsmith produced Live Aid with Sir Bob Geldof, which raised £140 million for the starving in Africa. |
| 1990: Harvey produced the first of three major Arena Opera productions - Aida, Carmen & Tosca. |
| 1991: Harvey produced Pavarotti in Hyde Park which was the first concert to be held in the park for 20 years. |
| 1994: Harvey commenced a relationship with Cirque du Soleil. This has been one of the most successful shows ever to perform in the UK. Returning to London's Royal Albert Hall every January to date, the show is seen by around 183,000 people & sells to around 98% of capacity. In 2005 Harvey managed the show in London, Birmingham & Manchester which marked a first in Europe for Cirque having two different productions in the same country. |
| 1995: Harvey produced the MasterCard Masters of Music show in Hyde Park which raised £1 million for the Princes Trust. He also joined the Red Cross Communications Board producing Pavarotti & Friends & Explosive Dance both at The Royal Albert Hall. |
| 1996: Harvey was honoured with a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list in recognition of his work in the entertainment business. |
| 1999: Harvey produced Net Aid, the largest awareness campaign for Extreme Poverty for the United Nations Development Programme & Cisco Systems. |
| 2000: Harvey produced the first Teenage Cancer Trust event at the Royal Albert Hall with The Who & guests raising over £1 million for the charity. |
| 2001: Harvey was hired by Safeway Stores to present Pavarotti, Charlotte Church, Vanessa Mae & Russell Watson in Hyde Park. Later that year Harvey produced Unite For The Future at The Old Vic raising $1 million for victims of the World Trade Centre disaster & their families living in the UK. |
| 2002: Harvey promoted five more shows for the Teenage Cancer Trust with Marti Pellow, Oasis, The Who & Paul Weller at The Royal Albert Hall raising £500,000 for The Trust. In the same year, he followed the Safeway event with another hugely successful show featuring Rod Stewart, Diana Ross, Shirley Bassey, Ronan Keating & Gabrielle. During October Harvey promoted Bruce Springsteen at Wembley Arena, the tickets for this show sold out in 40 minutes making it one of his most successful yet. This was followed by three sell-out stadium shows in May 2003. |
| 2003: Harvey & Roger Daltrey co-produced another run of shows at the Royal Albert Hall raising money for the Teenage Cancer Trust with six nights featuring Richard Hawley, Coldplay, Nigel Kennedy, Eric Clapton, Richard Ashcroft, Noel & Liam Gallagher, Paul Weller, Ash, Asian Dub Foundation, Supergrass, Doves, Madness & Aswad. |
| 2003: Harvey produced Fly To The Past, an historic revival & flight display at Blenheim Palace. He also produced, for the Mayor of London, the inaugural concert of the renovated Trafalgar Square with David Gray & five guest artists. |
| 2004: Another successful run of the Teenage Cancer Trust Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall. Also at the same venue, Sting sold out a run of six nights. |
| 2004: Harvey produced for the Crown Estate & Westminster Council the first ever parade of Formula One cars in the centre of the West End - Regent Street. Over 500,000 people attended this event. Regent Street was transformed into a 3km circuit & the top eight Formula One cars & drivers each completed a circuit. |
| 2004: Luciano Pavarotti appointed Harvey to be the worldwide producer of his Farewell Tour - 37 sold out concerts took place. Using Harvey's worldwide contacts & associates The Tour spanned six continents performing in North America, South America, Europe, Middle East, Asia & Australasia. |
| 2005: The Band Aid Trust asked Harvey to produce Live 8 worldwide. The event took place on 2nd July 2005 & presented the biggest collection of artists (225) all on one day in eight locations around the world. In addition to the Hyde Park concert in London, Harvey also executively produced Paris, Berlin, Rome & Philadelphia. The TV coverage set world records with 160 TV networks around the world showing the event live, plus 400 radio stations. In addition Harvey secured the partnership of AOL & Nokia. AOL's coverage of the five key events were ground breaking & have become a benchmark for global events. |
| 2006: Harvey was awarded the Chevalier des Artes et Lettres from the French Minister of Culture & chaired the British Music Experience that was built at the 02 Arena with AEG & the BPI. He was also honoured with the 15th Music Industry Trusts' Award (MITS), one of the highest accolades to be awarded within the music industry, in recognition of his contribution to the music industry. |
| 2006: Harvey produced the UK arena dates of Bruce Springsteen's sell-out tour with the Seeger Sessions band. |
| 2008: At the Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards Harvey was given a special VIP award for his contributions in the music & humanitarian spheres. |
| For a number of years, Harvey produced an annual 32 city tour for Jools Holland & continues to work with artists such as The Who, Bruce Springsteen & David Gilmour. Harvey has also created & produced The Smash Hits Poll Winners Party & The Disney Kids Awards. |
| Harvey was also a consultant to Anschutz Entertainment Group on the re-development of the Dome which became the 02 Arena with a 24,000 capacity arena as it's centrepiece. |
| Harvey is passionate about promoting London as The Greatest City In The World, became a director of the London Tourist Board & was part of the group which transformed LTB in to Visit London. Harvey is currently a member of the Mayor's Tourism Advisory Group. |
| Harvey is Chairman of Ignition, an Experiential Marketing company who are industry leaders in brand activations at events all over the world. Ignition was the winner of the 2006 Field Marketing & Brand Experience award. |
| Harvey presented the fantastic dance spectacular The Merchants of Bollywood; the first ever Bollywood production to tour straight from Film City in Mumbai. The show started it's tour in the UK, opened at London's Hammersmith Apollo & followed by an extensive tour of Europe & beyond. |
| Harvey was the Executive Producer of Nokia New Years Eve 2006 which saw five concerts run simultaneously in Hong Kong, Mumbai, Berlin, New York & Rio. The concerts were broadcast live across the globe & marked the biggest ever New Years Eve Music extravaganza featuring Black Eyed Peas, John Legend, Nelly Furtado, Scissor Sisters & many more. |
| Harvey Goldsmith has produced & promoted shows with most of the world's major artists including The Rolling Stones, The Who, Bruce Springsteen, The Eagles, Sheryl Crow, Shania Twain, Bee Gees, Jools Holland, Madonna, Elton John, Oasis, Scissor Sisters & Sting to name but a few. |
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