Show Business - Pete Waterman, of pop music fame.
John Swinfield's Big Business
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That’s Showbiz
As well as making TV documentaries about business leaders for Enterprise (ITV/C4), having previously been a reporter with The Money programme (BBC2), John Swinfield made 26 half-hour interview programmes for London News Radio which he called ‘The Boss’.
Among his guests were Pete Waterman, of pop music fame, and Christopher Bland and Greg Dyke, two of TV’s foremost players, executives with London Weekend Television. They were at the epicentre of a hostile takeover bid by Granada, which helped trigger and reshape the face of Britain’s commercial TV industry. The outspoken Pete Waterman’s worked with everybody who’s anybody in popular music, from Paul McCartney to Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan.
Impresario, producer, music guru and songsmith, Waterman was a judge on ITV’s show ‘Pop Stars: The Rivals’ which discovered the now deceased singer and actress Sarah Harding and created the chart-topping Girls Aloud pop group, with Harding appearing alongside Cheryl Tweedy, better known today as Cheryl Cole.