Music Row rejected the album by Wagoner, once known as Mr. Grand Ole Opry.

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There's a street in the middle of Music Row called "Chet Atkins Place, " another a few blocks over called "Roy Acuff Place, " and a statue of Owen Bradley at his piano at one end of the neighborhood.

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Meanwhile, song use was tracked by banks of secretaries filing index cards. (Secretary was about as high a job in the industry as a woman could hope for at the time.) Then in 1958, as record labels and studios began to line up along Music Row, BMI hired Preston to head a new office based in Nashville.

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If you see a BRG convertible zipping alongside an orderly row of vehicles on the highway, music turned up loud, driven by a person with a smile on his face and no phone in reach, you'll know it's me.

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He turned Death Row into one of the major forces in American music in the 1990s, but often became involved in hip-hop's gangland disputes.

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As well as writing columns for Front Row, articles for The Guardian and a BAFTA-nominated video game for Sony, he presented the music programme Kerry Shale's Listy Show for Oneword Radio.

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