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Ed Sheeran Pays Tribute to Outgoing Warner Music Exec Max Lousada at MBW Music Business UK Awards

Ed Sheeran's tribute to outgoing Warner Music exec Max Lousada can be watched here.

Before hitting the stage to receive the Sir George Martin Award at MBW’s Music Business UK Awards in London on Tuesday night (Nov. 5), outgoing Warner Music Group CEO of recorded music Max Lousada was introduced by someone who truly needs no introduction: longtime Atlantic Records superstar Ed Sheeran, who characterized Lousada as part of a rare and dying breed. Sheeran went on to list some of the artists whose careers Lousada was personally instrumental in launching — “from The Darkness to Stormzy, to James Blunt, Coldplay, Dua Lipa and beyond” — before making a call for the industry to support more young executives who can carry on his legacy. While accepting the award, Lousada said he was inspired in his own career by the example of the legendary George Martin and his work at Parlophone Records: “What he built was this kind of ever-welcoming shelter for unconventional minds, and that was something that has struck me and has been my North Star, the people that don’t quite seem to fit in.”

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