In the first of five pieces written by former Music Week editor Paul Williams, we begin our exploration of PPL’s illustrious history and its impact on the industry by digging into the numbers behind its ever more impressive collections figures, both domestically and around the world…

Rather than living up to George Orwell’s bleak Big Brother vision of a society of totalitarianism and mass surveillance, the year 1984 is now remembered as being a vintage time for British music with ...