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THE MPL 25th ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION

Ring them bells and light those candles, because MPL has been in the business of music publishing for 25 years - and is celebrating with a very special set of exclusive CDs

            In a world where a "Beatle" anniversary is never more than a few days away, it's sobering to realise that Paul's company MPL has now been in business for some 25 years. Based in New York and London, but with global concerns, MPL was established to represent Paul and Linda's work and form a management umbrella for their various activities. Increasingly, however, it has seen its name spread far and wide as a music publishing operation, to the point where MPL is ranked among the top five privately-owned independent publishing houses in the world. Club Sandwich 80
            While others in his position have elected to invest their capital in oil, minerals or other types of earthly exploitation, Paul opted to go into song publishing. Having never held control of his own compositions during the Beatles era, and so knowing how it feels to have a third party look after your publishing, he determined to establish himself as a decent music publisher, someone whom the writers or their descendants could trust to cherish their treasures.
            In short, MPL's quarter-century in the music publishing business has been marked by considered acquisitions and sensitive, honest handling of the copyrights - now numbering some 25,000 titles.
            Among the catalogues MPL has secured are Nor Va Jak (which includes many of Buddy Holly's songs), Desilu Music Corp (Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball's company), Arko Music Corp, Barwin Music Co Inc, Claridge Music Company, Conley Music Inc, Edwin H Morris & Company (a very significant catalogue of standards), Harwin Music Co, Jerryco Music Co, Meredith Willson Music, Morley Music Co, Remsen Music Corp, Winmor Music, Inc, Wren Music Co and, notably, Frank Music Corp - a healthy body of songs composed by the great Frank Loesser.
            And on top of all this, MPL publishes the hundreds of compositions written by Paul McCartney over the past 25 years: songs in every popular idiom that have won countless awards, received multi-million airplays, achieved gold, platinum and multi-platinum sales and been played to concert audiences around the world, as well as popular film and TV themes and classical work. It is somehow apt that Paul, frequently acclaimed as the greatest popular songwriter of the century, is himself the owner of many of the songs that compete with his as the pick of the bunch, and it is no less than remarkable that the man who brought 'Till There Was You' to a young audience for the first time has ended up looking after that

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