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(Photo by Joshua Blanchard/Getty Images for Billboard) Kenny MacPherson, a veteran publishing executive and artist manager who co-founded Big Deal Music Group, was formerly CEO of Hipgnosis Songs Group and worked with such acts as Radiohead, Supertramp, Ray LaMontagne, My Morning Jacket, the Blue Nile, St. Vincent and others, died on Friday in Los Angeles, according to Hits and other media reports. No cause of death was announced; he was 71.
A native of Scotland, MacPherson began his career working at Glasgow’s legendary Apollo Theatre and eventually became its manager. That role led to a job in London with powerhouse promoter Harvey Goldsmith Entertainment, one of whose acts, the Manhattan Transfer, hired him and brought him to of Los Angeles. He then managed the British group Supertramp and branched into publishing.
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