Helen Reddy To Receive Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music
The late Helen Reddy will receive one of two Ted Albert Awards for Outstanding Services to Australian Music at the APRA Music Awards for 2021.
Helen was to receive the award in 2020 but Covid caused a reformatting of the event. Helen died in September, before the 2021 awards were announced.
Traci Donat, Helen’s daughter said: “I am so honoured to be accepting The Ted Albert Award on behalf of my mother who devoted her life and career to equal rights for all people. And in honouring her you honour not just her music but also what she stood for. We couldn’t be more deeply moved and grateful.”
Michael Gudinski dies at 68
Australian music mogul Michael Gudinski, AM, has died in Melbourne aged 68.
TMN understands he passed away overnight Monday, just weeks before he was to announce a major project with the Victorian Government to bolster the state’s music industry.
For over 50 years, Gudinski enjoyed a reputation as a high-energy, relentless businessman, who drove his passion for music through his Mushroom Group ventures.
In 2017, these numbered 24, a conservative number as he admitted he couldn’t remember them all. The most high profile were Mushroom Records, Frontier Touring and Premier Artists.
In recent years, as Frontier toured superstars Ed Sheeran and Bruce Springsteen,
Kylie Minogue and Bruce Springsteen are among the musicians to pay tribute to Michael Gudinski, a leading figure in the Australian music industry. The 68-year-old tour promoter died in his sleep at his home in Melbourne on Monday (1 March) night, his family confirmed. After founding the label Mushroom Records in 1972, at the age of 20, Gudinski went on to be the owner of Australia’s biggest independent entertainment group. He helped launch the.
In the book 25 years of Mushroom Records, published in 1998, Michael Gudinski described himself as “Chairman, Mushroom Group of Companies and music fan”.
There could be no better description of Gudinski, an icon of the Australian popular music industry, who has died at the age of 68. An undated image of Gudinski. Frontier Touring/AAP
His name is synonymous with the biggest artists in Australia for good reason. Gudinski founded Mushroom Records in 1972. One of its first “big bangs” was a triple album, live recording of the Sunbury Festival. Next came Frontier Touring (founded in 1979) and what would eventually become the Mushroom Group.