Nik Powell

Nik Powell
Born	Nikolas Mark Powell 4 November 1950 Great Kingshill, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
Died	7 November 2019 (aged 69) Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Education	Ampleforth College, University of Sussex
Occupation(s)	Record label founder, film producer and company founder
Known for	co-founder with Stephen Woolley of Palace Productions, co-founding Virgin Records with Richard Branson in 1972,
Spouse	Sandie Shaw (m. 1982; div. 1995)

Nikolas Mark Powell (4 November 1950 – 7 November 2019)^[1] was a British businessman and one of the co-founders of Virgin Records with Richard Branson. After operating a mail-order company, a small record shop, and a recording studio, the partners established the label in 1972. It became one of the UK's major recording labels until its sale to EMI in 1992.

Biography

Born in Great Kingshill, Buckinghamshire, England, Powell was educated first at Longacre School, Shamley Green, Guildford, Surrey, moving when he was seven to a small Catholic preparatory school, St. Richard's^[2] in Little Malvern, outside Malvern. From there he went to Ampleforth College, North Yorkshire, and subsequently spent a year at the University of Sussex.

In 1983, Powell and Stephen Woolley founded Palace Productions, which produced The Company of Wolves (1984), Mona Lisa (1986), and The Crying Game (1992).^[3] After presiding over the 1992 collapse of the company, Powell re-established himself in the film industry with Scala Productions and produced Fever Pitch (1997), Twenty Four Seven (also 1997), B. Monkey (1998), Last Orders (2001), and Ladies in Lavender (2004).^[4]

Powell was director of the National Film and Television School^[5] from 2003 to 2017 in England while maintaining his position as chairman of Scala Productions.

Personal life and death

Powell's marriage to Merrill Tomassi, the sister of Richard Branson's first wife, ended in divorce. He then married singer Sandie Shaw and helped relaunch her career. They had two children, Amie and Jack, before divorcing in the early 1990s.

Powell died on 7 November 2019 in Oxford, aged 69; he had been receiving treatment for cancer.^[6]

References

^ "Nikolas Mark Powell personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". Companies House. Retrieved 7 April 2024.
^ "St Richard's – Home". St-richards.org.uk. 1 December 2010. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
^ "NIK POWELL Director, NFTS". NFTS. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
^ Alberge, Dalya (3 October 2010). "UK film-makers 'frittering away millions'". The Observer. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
^ Gant, Charles (6 December 2010). "My alternative British Independent Film awards 2010". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
^ "Nik Powell obituary". The Guardian. 11 November 2019. Retrieved 23 November 2021.

External links

Nik Powell at IMDb

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People	Jeff Ayeroff Richard Branson Nik Powell Rob Stevenson
Subsidiaries	Astralwerks Records Back Porch Records Caroline Records Caroline France Charisma Records Dindisc E.G. Records Fiction Records Fontana Records Front Line Higher Octave Music Hut Records Immortal Records Narada Productions Noo Trybe Records Point Blank Records Rap-A-Lot Records Real World Records Vernon Yard Recordings Virgin Records Virgin Schallplatten
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