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A Florida jury on Friday awarded Grammy Award-winning music veteran Alan Parsons nearly $5 million in damages upon finding that his former promoter fraudulently used Parsons' brand to promote shows even after they stopped working together.

ADVERTISEMENT Court Grants Delay But Not Stay In Suit Against Alan Parsons Law360 (July 12, 2021, 8:53 PM EDT) -- A Florida judge declined Monday to pause a state court suit filed against Grammy-winner Alan Parsons company by his former promoter while the two duke it out in federal court over alleged "knockoff" concerts that Parsons says used his name without authorization. In a hearing conducted over Zoom, Orange County Circuit Judge Denise Beamer denied the request from Parsons loan-out comp...

By: Deborah Speer cover of Pollstar 12/21/20 issue Ben Bart might have seemed like another unremarkable music fan as a young man from Knoxville, Tenn., in the 1930s, other than a penchant for traveling between Memphis and Nashville to see the orchestras and bands of the day perform live. The main object of his affection was “race music” – the euphemism of the time for what evolved into R&B and soul music, and the (segregated) domain of Black mus...

By: Deborah Speer cover of Pollstar 12/21/20 issue Ben Bart might have seemed like another unremarkable music fan as a young man from Knoxville, Tenn., in the 1930s, other than a penchant for traveling between Memphis and Nashville to see the orchestras and bands of the day perform live. The main object of his affection was “race music” – the euphemism of the time for what evolved into R&B and soul music, and the (segregated) domain of Black mus...