KICKING UP SOME DUST: Word has it that
Fred again.. is a lock for the
Coachella 2025 lineup, but much chatter surrounds the other headliners. Will
Jelly,
Post or
Morgan top the bill? Will anyone fill the
No Doubt slot? Where is
Travis Scott, given that
Kendrick Lamar is unavailable due to his
Super Bowl halftime commitment? Time to slather on some sunscreen, because this thing’s already blazing hot.
THE FAMILY BUSINESS: The
Grainge family’s prominence in today’s business—as chronicled in a recent
Sunday Times piece and elsewhere—is remarkable and unparalleled. Much has been made of the fact that dad
Lucian runs
UMG and son
Elliot now runs
Atlantic Music Group. And let's not forget the importance of Lucian’s late, great older brother,
Nigel, whose influence stretched over several decades and whose
Ensign Records (
Thin Lizzy,
10cc,
The Waterboys,
Sinead O’Connor,
Boomtown Rats,
World Party) was a force to be reckoned with. Lucian and Nigel’s dad,
Cecil, ran a London shop that sold records—no doubt sowing the creative and commercial seeds of the present dynasty.
There are other prominent music-biz families, of course, from
Ahmet and
Nesuhi Ertegun and the
Lipman brothers to the
Ienners (
Donnie’s torrid run at
Columbia,
Jimmy’s impressive stretch as producer of
Grand Funk,
Three Dog Night,
The Raspberries and more),
Irving Azoff and son
Jeffrey—whose family business is an empire, with
Full Stop,
GMR,
Oak View and more worlds to conquer—and
Clive Davis and his sons
Doug and
Fred.
And then there are the
Dickinses:
WME honcho/
Adele agent
Lucy, Adele manager
Jonathan, dad and
ITB founder
Barry, uncle and erstwhile
Warner U.K. boss
Rob and granddad
Percy, who founded
NME in 1952.
Two Grainges atop two different companies, however, would appear to be unprecedented.
