Phil Hardy

In 1986 I went to Eritrea, Ethiopia and Sudan to research and write the documentary film, Food Trucks & Rock 'n' Roll about how the money raised by Band Aid was spent in Africa. I was the founding editor of Music and Copyright, a biweekly newsletter offering news and analysis on the international music industry published by the Financial Times. My books include Samuel Fuller (1970), The Encyclopedia of Horror Movies (1986) ,The Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music (1990) and The British Film Institute Companion to Crime (1997). My Western Encyclopedia won the BFI Book Award in 1984. Download!: How Digital Destroyed the Record Industry, was published at the end of 2012. I have just finished writing a book about music publishing and copyright administration since 2000. Currently I am writing a book about trhe history of the Universal Music Group