Nik Powell is one of the co-founders of the Virgin Group alongside Richard Branson. Having run a small music shop together in London, they set up Virgin Records in 1972 and became one of the UK's major recording labels until they sold to EMI in 1992. Powell married 60s singer Sandie Shaw in the early 80s and helped relaunch her career during that decade. They have two children together, Amie and Jack. The Virgin Group is the group of companies using the Virgin brand of British celebrity business tycoon Sir Richard Branson. ... Sir Richard Branson during the announcement of the Virgin Express airline which would compete with Ryanair and EasyJet. ... Virgin Records is a British recording label founded by British entrepreneur Richard Branson, and Nik Powell in 1972 after a period of selling discount records via their small shop in London. ... The EMI Group is a major record label, based in Kensington in London, in the United Kingdom. ... Sandie Shaw (real name Sandra Ann Goodrich) (born February 26, 1947) was the most successful British girl singer of the 1960s. ...
In 1983, Nik, alongside Stephen Woolley, founded Palace Productions - which went on to produce The Company of Wolves (1984), Mona Lisa (1986) and The Crying Game (1992). The company changed it's name to Scala Productions in the early 1990's and has since produced Fever Pitch, TwentyFourSeven, Last Orders and Ladies In Lavender.
Powell accepts that the image of EFA has declined, but thinks this was probably almost inevitable, at any rate it is in the context of what has happened to other, similar bodies.
Powell's aim is to begin the slow process of building EFA (back) into something major, broadening the membership from the original elitist 100, and setting up Associate (non-voting) membership for anybody interested in European film.
And top PR company DDA will be working with Powell and EFA to promote and produce the event and the ceremony, which will be held in its usual slot in December (though the precise date cannot be confirmed until a venue is fixed).
Nik Turner is a founding member of legendary British “space rock” band Hawkwind.
After leaving Hawkwind, Nik put out several albums with the band Inner City Unit in the seventies and eighties, and has continued making music both as a solo artist and as a member of several projects right up to the present.
Nik is currently involved with the British band Space Ritual (made up entirely of former Hawkwind members) and the American group Spaceseed, who will be backing him up on his current U.S. tour.
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