Jeremy Lascelles

Robert Jeremy Hugh Lascelles (born 14 February 1955) is the third child of George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, and Marion Stein, who later married Jeremy Thorpe. He is a great-grandson of George V, so he is a second cousin to the Prince of Wales and is in the line of succession to the British throne.

Life

He is a former CEO of Chrysalis Music plc. He has been involved in the music industry since the early 1970s. This included playing percussion for the Global Village Trucking Company, for whom his older brother James Lascelles played keyboards.^[1] He then became a tour promoter before moving to Virgin in the late 1970s. He rose to Head of A&R under Richard Branson and set up his own independent label (Offside Records - named after his favourite cricket shot) before being hired by Chris Wright of Chrysalis in 1994. He is known for his ambivalence to being born into the Royal Family (his godmother was Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother).

Lascelles stood down as CEO of Chrysalis Music in March 2012 and was subsequently named as a Visiting Professor at Leeds College of Music (LCoM), a role which commenced in October 2012

As Chief Executive of the Music Division and later CEO of Chrysalis, he signed or oversaw the signings of acts including Portishead, David Gray, OutKast, Ray LaMontagne, Feeder, Cee-Lo Green, Laura Marling, Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes and Rumer. Lascelles was elected to the council of the BPI in 2003 and from 2004-2007 he served on the board of AIM as Vice-Chairman. He was shortlisted for the Orange Business Leader of the Year award in 2010. In 2014 he started Blue Raincoat Music, and presently heads up the company. In 2016 Blue Raincoat Music acquired full ownership of the British independent label, Chrysalis Records, including the rosters of The Specials, Sinead O’Connor, The Waterboys, Ten Years After, Fun Boy Three, Ultravox, Generation X, 2 Tone Records, and much more. He is also an ardent Leeds United supporter.

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