Raphael and Charrington: 'Everyone thinks A&R is about closing the deal. That's the easy bit'

Jo Charrington, EVP A&R at Captol Records UK, isn’t a ‘You okay, hun?’ kind of woman. And who knows exactly how many people should be thankful for that.
Nick Raphael, UK president at Capitol, certainly. Sam Smith, quite possibly. The entire UK music industry, maybe.

The fact is, when Raphael was having his existential (and hitless) period of crisis and self doubt between 2011 and 2013, having left Sony (with Charrington), to join Universal, her response was exactly what he ...


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