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Nikolas Mark Powell (4 November 1950 – 7 November 2019) was a British businessman and one of the co-founders of Virgin Records with Richard Branson. After operating a mail-order company, a small record shop, and a recording studio, the partners established the label in 1972.
Nov 11, 2019 · Ryan Gilbey. Mon 11 Nov 2019 08.24 EST. Nik Powell, who has died aged 69 from cancer, made an incalculable impact across two separate art forms.
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Nik Powell was a British music and film producer who co-founded Virgin Records and Palace Pictures. He also headed the National Film and Television School and received a BAFTA for his contribution to cinema.
Nov 7, 2019 · Nik Powell, a co-founder of Virgin Records with Richard Branson and a producer on films including the best picture Oscar nominee The Crying Game, has died. He was 69. Powell had been receiving...
Nov 8, 2019 · Virgin Records co-founder and childhood friend of Richard Branson, Nik Powell has died in Oxford from cancer at the age of 69. Powell had been receiving treatment for cancer and passed away on...
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Nov 7, 2019 · Nik Powell was a prominent figure in the British film industry, co-founding Palace Pictures and Scala Productions with Stephen Woolley. He also served as the director of the NFTS from 2003 to 2017 and received a Bafta for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema in 2018.
Nik Powell obituary: a rolling stone in the British film world. The distributor and producer who shook up the stuffy world of 1980s British cinema latterly became a dynamic moderniser of the country’s leading film school. 4 November 1950–7 November 2019.
