Julian Henry
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Julian Henry is a Public Relations executive and media writer based in London UK. He has worked in music PR and journalism since the 1980s, during which time he has released several CDs with the group The Hit Parade
. He founded the entertainment PR firm Henry's House
in the 1990s, was appointed Head of Communication for Simon Fuller
's 19 Entertainment
in 2006, and writes for The Guardian
newspaper.
, a well known figure in the early days of independent TV in London in the early 1960s. In 1956 Brian Henry became the Controller of Advertisements at Associated-Rediffusion
Ltd, the London weekday TV broadcaster, and the largest and most important television company in the ITV
network, before joining Southern TV as Managing Director in the 1960s. He later joined the Daily Mail
Associated Newspapers
as Director of Marketing taking the newspaper from broadsheet to tabloid, and later returned to Southern Television. He was a Fellow of Institute of Marketing, and Chairman of the Oxford Playhouse helping to restore the building and bring it back to use. He was author of the book "British Television Advertising: The first 30 years" (1986, London).
Julian Henry's mother is Elizabeth Craig, former journalist for Woman's Journal
, child star of various billboard campaigns including Wrights Coal Tar Soap
(popular household soap in 1930's Britain)and other advertising work. She was photographed by Dorothy Wilding
, and appeared as a child regularly in the Daily Express, Sunday Express and other newspapers and magazines.
He is great nephew of Elizabeth Craig MBE
FRSA, (celebrated Scottish author, journalist, cook). Elizabeth Craig was the best known Scottish cook of the 20th Century. She wrote over 40 cookery books, and contributed to many magazines and newspapers. She appeared on the famous 'over 90s' show on BBC TV Parkinson in 1978 aged 95 alongside Rt Honourable Manny Shinwell MP and the playwright Ben Travis CBE.
Julian Henry is the great nephew of Arthur Mann, First World War
and Second World War
journalist and reporter for Washington Post, New York Times and North American radio broadcasting organisation Mutual Broadcasting Company. Mann was a contemporary of Edward Murrow, Richard Dimbleby
and others. He broadcast weekly reports across America from Europe throughout the 2nd World War.
He is brother of UK advertising copywriter Susie Henry, D&AD
Gold Award winner, creator of the slogan "We Won't Make A Drama Out Of A Crisis" and founder of advertising agency
Waldron Allen Henry & Thompson.
Julian Henry lives in London and Oxford and has two children George (born 1997) and Harriet (born 1999).
, Generation X, The Stranglers
, Blondie
, Wire, and The Buzzcocks. He later joined Albion Management, the owners of several London new wave venues including The Hope'n'Anchor and The Nashville. There he became the PR Manager for the Albion Record label and The dBs, Hazel O'Connor
, Billy Bragg
, Joe Jackson
, Ian Gomm
, 999, Pinpoint and others. He became a freelance journalist for music magazines including Melody Maker
, NME
, Record Mirror, The Hit, Underground Magazine and Music Week
. He was ther first journalist to review the newly formed Simply Red
and teenage actress Patsy Kensit
, then about to launch her career with Eighth Wonder. He interviewed many prominent 80s music acts including Sigue Sigue Sputnik
, Propaganda, Trevor Horn
, Wet Wet Wet, Motorhead and others.
. He remained there for ten years as she promoted the careers of Jean Paul Gaultier, Katherine Hamnett, Rifat Ozbek
and other influential designers, eventually becoming Deputy Managing Director. Henry was caricatured in a sketch by comedians French & Saunders
.
In 1987 Julian Henry met music manager Simon Fuller and began a working relationship that has lasted over 20 years to the current day. His first work for Fuller was for songwriter Cathy Dennis
and Annie Lennox
while at Lynne Franks PR. He remains one of Fuller closest advisors and has taken on a senior role at 19 Entertainment as global head of communication.
He became a director of Lynne Franks PR in 1991 and developed his own entertainment client roster away from fashion including Absolut Vodka
, Coca-Cola
, BBC Radio 1
, HMV Music Stores, Yamaha
, Sega
, the pop singer Michael Jackson
, The Spice Girls and various television shows including the BAFTA award winning C4 show Network 7. While at LFPR Julian Henry co-produced two TV shows with BBC TV's Kenton Allen
'Yamaha Band Explosion' (BBC) - a sponsored TV showcase for new talent - which featured early performances by Teenage Fanclub
, Manic Street Preachers
, Blur
and Radiohead
. He also worked with Allen on the Diet Coke Movie Awards (ITV). At this time he founded his own record label JSH Records and contributed articles to British music papers including NME, Melody Maker and Music Week. As a champion of indie music and contributor to Underground Magazine Henry helped unearth several bands that went on to prominence including Liverpool group The La's
who he introduced to Go Discs chief Andy McDonald.
In early 1990s his music group The Hit Parade
became successful in Japan and USA. He toured Japan four times and released a series of CDs that were critically applauded but never commercially successful. Between 1996 and 1998, he was a member of the Spice Girls
' management team. In 1998 he launched his own PR
company, Henry's House
with Simon Fuller
as a fellow director. While running Henry's House he publicised Tango
, Big Brother
, Coca-Cola, Absolut Vodka, Pop Idol and various TV shows and celebrities.
In 1998 through 1999, he continued to do peripheral sports media management in association with Fuller's 19 Management, and acted as Steve McManaman
's sports agent
, securing his lucrative move to Real Madrid
, making him the world's best paid British player at the time.
In 2004 he was listed as one of the Top 10 Marketing & PR people in the UK by The Guardian newspaper. http://media.guardian.co.uk/top100_2004/index/0,,1247483,00.html
In 2007, Henry took on the role of Head of Communications at Simon Fuller
's 19 Entertainment
where he oversees promotion of David
and Victoria Beckham
, American Idol
TV show, the Spice Girls
and others, as well as handling all corporate affairs issues for Simon Fuller. Henry is no longer involved with Henry's House
. He was a Trustee of The ICA
from 2001 to 2008. He writes an occasional newspaper column for The Guardian
.
The Hit Parade
The Hit Parade is a British pop music group, based in London, England. Named after the NBC US television programme, Your Hit Parade, which was broadcast across America in the 1950s as a showcase of the best of chart music, The Hit Parade was formed in 1984, by three schoolfriends Raymond Watts,...
. He founded the entertainment PR firm Henry's House
Henry's House
House PR is a London based creative public relations agency dedicated to harnessing the power of the mass media for UK, European and international markets.- Background :...
in the 1990s, was appointed Head of Communication for Simon Fuller
Simon Fuller
Simon Fuller is a British artist manager, television producer and creator of the Idol franchise, first seen as Pop Idol in the UK. Fuller is also the co-creator and executive producer of the Fox TV reality show So You Think You Can Dance and other U.S...
's 19 Entertainment
19 Entertainment
19 Entertainment, based in Los Angeles, United States, is a creator and producer of entertainment properties based around the areas of Music and Television / Film, including American Idol in the United States, Pop Idol in the United Kingdom as well as versions of the Idol series in more than...
in 2006, and writes for The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
newspaper.
Family
Julian Henry is related to several figures in media and journalism. He is the son of Brian HenryBG Henry
BG Henry was a powerful figure in TV and newspaper advertising in the UK in the 1950 and 1960s.- Early life :Brian Glynn Henry was born in February 1926 in Liverpool and educated at Stowe School under JF Roxburgh from September 1940 to April 1944 where he obtained School and Higher Certificates,...
, a well known figure in the early days of independent TV in London in the early 1960s. In 1956 Brian Henry became the Controller of Advertisements at Associated-Rediffusion
Associated-Rediffusion
Associated-Rediffusion, later Rediffusion, London, was the British ITV contractor for London and parts of the surrounding counties, on weekdays between 1954 and 29 July 1968. Transmissions started on 22 September 1955.-Formation:...
Ltd, the London weekday TV broadcaster, and the largest and most important television company in the ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
network, before joining Southern TV as Managing Director in the 1960s. He later joined the Daily Mail
Daily Mail
The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust. First published in 1896 by Lord Northcliffe, it is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun. Its sister paper The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982...
Associated Newspapers
Associated Newspapers
Associated Newspapers is a large national newspaper publisher in the UK, which is a subsidiary of the Daily Mail and General Trust. The group was established in 1905 and is currently based at Northcliffe House in Kensington...
as Director of Marketing taking the newspaper from broadsheet to tabloid, and later returned to Southern Television. He was a Fellow of Institute of Marketing, and Chairman of the Oxford Playhouse helping to restore the building and bring it back to use. He was author of the book "British Television Advertising: The first 30 years" (1986, London).
Julian Henry's mother is Elizabeth Craig, former journalist for Woman's Journal
Woman's Journal
Woman's Journal was a women's rights periodical published from 1870-1931.Woman's Journal was founded in 1870 in Boston, Massachusetts by Lucy Stone and her husband Henry Browne Blackwell as a weekly newspaper. The new paper incorporated Mary A...
, child star of various billboard campaigns including Wrights Coal Tar Soap
Wrights Coal Tar Soap
Created by William Valentine Wright in 1860, Wright's Traditional Soap, or Wright's Coal Tar Soap, is a popular brand of antiseptic soap that is designed to thoroughly cleanse the skin. It is an orange colour....
(popular household soap in 1930's Britain)and other advertising work. She was photographed by Dorothy Wilding
Dorothy Wilding
Dorothy Wilding was a noted English society photographer from Gloucester. She wanted to become an actress or artist but this career was disallowed by her uncle, in whose family she lived, so she chose the art of photography which she started to learn from the age of sixteen.By 1929 she had already...
, and appeared as a child regularly in the Daily Express, Sunday Express and other newspapers and magazines.
He is great nephew of Elizabeth Craig MBE
MBE
MBE can stand for:* Mail Boxes Etc.* Management by exception* Master of Bioethics* Master of Bioscience Enterprise* Master of Business Engineering* Master of Business Economics* Mean Biased Error...
FRSA, (celebrated Scottish author, journalist, cook). Elizabeth Craig was the best known Scottish cook of the 20th Century. She wrote over 40 cookery books, and contributed to many magazines and newspapers. She appeared on the famous 'over 90s' show on BBC TV Parkinson in 1978 aged 95 alongside Rt Honourable Manny Shinwell MP and the playwright Ben Travis CBE.
Julian Henry is the great nephew of Arthur Mann, First World War
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
and Second World War
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
journalist and reporter for Washington Post, New York Times and North American radio broadcasting organisation Mutual Broadcasting Company. Mann was a contemporary of Edward Murrow, Richard Dimbleby
Richard Dimbleby
Richard Dimbleby CBE was an English journalist and broadcaster widely acknowledged as one of the greatest figures in British broadcasting history.-Early life:...
and others. He broadcast weekly reports across America from Europe throughout the 2nd World War.
He is brother of UK advertising copywriter Susie Henry, D&AD
D&AD
Design and Art Direction is a British educational charity which exists to promote excellence in design and advertising...
Gold Award winner, creator of the slogan "We Won't Make A Drama Out Of A Crisis" and founder of advertising agency
Advertising agency
An advertising agency or ad agency is a service business dedicated to creating, planning and handling advertising for its clients. An ad agency is independent from the client and provides an outside point of view to the effort of selling the client's products or services...
Waldron Allen Henry & Thompson.
Julian Henry lives in London and Oxford and has two children George (born 1997) and Harriet (born 1999).
Early career
Julian Henry started work as a junior publicist for music Press Agency Alan Edwards in London's West End in 1979 repping clients that included Billy IdolBilly Idol
William Michael Albert Broad , better known by his stage name Billy Idol, is an English rock musician. A member of the Bromley Contingent of Sex Pistols fans, Idol first achieved fame in the punk rock era as a member of the band Generation X...
, Generation X, The Stranglers
The Stranglers
The Stranglers are an English punk/rock music group.Scoring some 23 UK top 40 singles and 17 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning five decades, the Stranglers are the longest-surviving and most "continuously successful" band to have originated in the UK punk scene of the mid to late 1970s...
, Blondie
Blondie (band)
Blondie is an American rock band, founded by singer Deborah Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. The band was a pioneer in the early American New Wave and punk scenes of the mid-1970s...
, Wire, and The Buzzcocks. He later joined Albion Management, the owners of several London new wave venues including The Hope'n'Anchor and The Nashville. There he became the PR Manager for the Albion Record label and The dBs, Hazel O'Connor
Hazel O'Connor
Hazel O'Connor is an English singer-songwriter and actress. She is the daughter of a soldier from Galway who settled in England after World War II to work in a car plant...
, Billy Bragg
Billy Bragg
Stephen William Bragg , better known as Billy Bragg, is an English alternative rock musician and left-wing activist. His music blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs, and his lyrics mostly deal with political or romantic themes...
, Joe Jackson
Joe Jackson (musician)
Joe Jackson is an English musician and singer-songwriter now living in Berlin, whose five Grammy Award nominations span from 1979 to 2001...
, Ian Gomm
Ian Gomm
Ian Robert Gomm is a British singer-songwriter, who was the rhythm guitarist for Brinsley Schwarz from 1970 to 1974. He was named "Best Rhythm Guitarist" by NME in 1971.[]...
, 999, Pinpoint and others. He became a freelance journalist for music magazines including Melody Maker
Melody Maker
Melody Maker, published in the United Kingdom, was, according to its publisher IPC Media, the world's oldest weekly music newspaper. It was founded in 1926 as a magazine targeted at musicians; in 2000 it was merged into "long-standing rival" New Musical Express.-1950s–1960s:Originally the Melody...
, NME
NME
The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...
, Record Mirror, The Hit, Underground Magazine and Music Week
Music Week
Music Week is a trade paper for the UK record industry.Founded in 1959 as Record Retailer, it was relaunched on 18 March 1972 as Music Week . On 17 January 1981 the title was again changed, owing to the increasing importance of sell-through videos, to Music & Video Week...
. He was ther first journalist to review the newly formed Simply Red
Simply Red
Simply Red were a British soul band that sold more than 50 million albums over a 25-year career. Their style drew influences from blue-eyed soul, new romantic, rock, reggae and jazz...
and teenage actress Patsy Kensit
Patsy Kensit
Patricia Jude Francis "Patsy" Kensit is an English actress, singer, model and former child star, known for her television and film appearances. Her films include Lethal Weapon 2 and she has been married to rock stars Jim Kerr and Liam Gallagher, as well as herself fronting the band Eighth Wonder...
, then about to launch her career with Eighth Wonder. He interviewed many prominent 80s music acts including Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Sigue Sigue Sputnik were a British new wave band created in 1982 by the former Generation X bassist Tony James. The band had three UK Top 40 hit singles, including the song "Love Missile F1-11".-Early years:...
, Propaganda, Trevor Horn
Trevor Horn
Trevor Charles Horn CBE is an English pop music record producer, songwriter, musician and singer. He was born in Houghton-le-Spring in north-east England....
, Wet Wet Wet, Motorhead and others.
PR career
In 1986, Julian Henry was appointed as PR executive for renowned fashion publicist Lynne FranksLynne Franks
Lynne Franks founded one of the UK’s best-known public relations consultancies in the early 1970s and is currently an advocate, communications strategist, writer and spokeswoman on women’s issues, sustainability and consumer lifestyles....
. He remained there for ten years as she promoted the careers of Jean Paul Gaultier, Katherine Hamnett, Rifat Ozbek
Rifat Ozbek
Rifat Ozbek is a Turkish-born fashion designer, known for his exotic, ethnically-inspired outfits. He has been named British Designer of the Year in 1988 and 1992.-Biography:Ozbek was born in Istanbul, Turkey and grew up in in a yali on the Bosphorus...
and other influential designers, eventually becoming Deputy Managing Director. Henry was caricatured in a sketch by comedians French & Saunders
French & Saunders
French and Saunders is a British sketch comedy television show written by and starring comic duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. It is also the name by which the performers are known on the occasions when they appear elsewhere as a double act....
.
In 1987 Julian Henry met music manager Simon Fuller and began a working relationship that has lasted over 20 years to the current day. His first work for Fuller was for songwriter Cathy Dennis
Cathy Dennis
Cathy Dennis is a British dance-oriented pop singer-songwriter, record producer and actress...
and Annie Lennox
Annie Lennox
Annie Lennox, OBE , born Ann Lennox, is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving minor success in the late 1970s with The Tourists, with fellow musician David A...
while at Lynne Franks PR. He remains one of Fuller closest advisors and has taken on a senior role at 19 Entertainment as global head of communication.
He became a director of Lynne Franks PR in 1991 and developed his own entertainment client roster away from fashion including Absolut Vodka
Absolut Vodka
Absolut Vodka is a brand of vodka, produced near Åhus, Skåne, in southern Sweden. Since July 2008 the company has been owned by the French firm Pernod Ricard who bought V&S Group from the Swedish government....
, Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola is a carbonated soft drink sold in stores, restaurants, and vending machines in more than 200 countries. It is produced by The Coca-Cola Company of Atlanta, Georgia, and is often referred to simply as Coke...
, BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7:00pm including electronic dance, hip hop, rock...
, HMV Music Stores, Yamaha
Yamaha
Yamaha may refer to:* Yamaha Corporation, a Japanese company with a wide range of products and services** Yamaha Motor Company, a Japanese motorized vehicle-producing company...
, Sega
Sega
, usually styled as SEGA, is a multinational video game software developer and an arcade software and hardware development company headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan, with various offices around the world...
, the pop singer Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...
, The Spice Girls and various television shows including the BAFTA award winning C4 show Network 7. While at LFPR Julian Henry co-produced two TV shows with BBC TV's Kenton Allen
Kenton Allen
Kenton Allen is Chief Executive of Big Talk Productions. He is a multi-award–winning programme maker with programmes such as the BAFTA Award–winning The Royle Family and the Oscar Award–winning film Six Shooter ....
'Yamaha Band Explosion' (BBC) - a sponsored TV showcase for new talent - which featured early performances by Teenage Fanclub
Teenage Fanclub
Teenage Fanclub are an alternative rock band from Bellshill, Scotland. The band is composed of Norman Blake , Raymond McGinley , Gerard Love and Francis MacDonald , with songwriting duties shared equally among Blake, McGinley and Love...
, Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers are a Welsh alternative rock band, formed in 1986. They are James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire, Richey Edwards and Sean Moore. The band are part of the Cardiff music scene, and were at their most prominent during the 1990s...
, Blur
Blur (band)
Blur is an English alternative rock band. Formed in London in 1989 as Seymour, the group consists of singer Damon Albarn, guitarist Graham Coxon, bassist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree. Blur's debut album Leisure incorporated the sounds of Madchester and shoegazing...
and Radiohead
Radiohead
Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke , Jonny Greenwood , Ed O'Brien , Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway .Radiohead released their debut single "Creep" in 1992...
. He also worked with Allen on the Diet Coke Movie Awards (ITV). At this time he founded his own record label JSH Records and contributed articles to British music papers including NME, Melody Maker and Music Week. As a champion of indie music and contributor to Underground Magazine Henry helped unearth several bands that went on to prominence including Liverpool group The La's
The La's
The La's were an English rock band from Liverpool, originally active from the mid-1980s to early 1990s. Fronted by singer, songwriter and guitarist Lee Mavers, the group is most famous for their hit single "There She Goes". The band was formed by Mike Badger in 1984 and Mavers joined soon after...
who he introduced to Go Discs chief Andy McDonald.
In early 1990s his music group The Hit Parade
The Hit Parade
The Hit Parade is a British pop music group, based in London, England. Named after the NBC US television programme, Your Hit Parade, which was broadcast across America in the 1950s as a showcase of the best of chart music, The Hit Parade was formed in 1984, by three schoolfriends Raymond Watts,...
became successful in Japan and USA. He toured Japan four times and released a series of CDs that were critically applauded but never commercially successful. Between 1996 and 1998, he was a member of the Spice Girls
Spice Girls
The Spice Girls were a British pop girl group formed in 1994. The group consisted of Victoria Beckham , Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Melanie Chisholm and Geri Halliwell. They were signed to Virgin Records and released their debut single, "Wannabe" in 1996, which hit number-one in more than 30...
' management team. In 1998 he launched his own PR
Public relations
Public relations is the actions of a corporation, store, government, individual, etc., in promoting goodwill between itself and the public, the community, employees, customers, etc....
company, Henry's House
Henry's House
House PR is a London based creative public relations agency dedicated to harnessing the power of the mass media for UK, European and international markets.- Background :...
with Simon Fuller
Simon Fuller
Simon Fuller is a British artist manager, television producer and creator of the Idol franchise, first seen as Pop Idol in the UK. Fuller is also the co-creator and executive producer of the Fox TV reality show So You Think You Can Dance and other U.S...
as a fellow director. While running Henry's House he publicised Tango
Tango (drink)
Tango is a carbonated soft drink sold primarily in the United Kingdom and Ireland and from 2010 in Sweden, Norway and Hungary as well, first launched by Corona in 1950. Corona were bought by the Beecham Group in 1958, and Beecham Soft Drinks were bought by Britvic in 1987...
, Big Brother
Big Brother (UK)
Big Brother UK is the British version of the Dutch Big Brother television format, which takes its name from the character in George Orwell's 1948 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four...
, Coca-Cola, Absolut Vodka, Pop Idol and various TV shows and celebrities.
In 1998 through 1999, he continued to do peripheral sports media management in association with Fuller's 19 Management, and acted as Steve McManaman
Steve McManaman
Steven McManaman is a retired English footballer who played as a midfielder, winger and playmaker. Having spent his playing career at two of European football's most successful clubs of the 20th century, Liverpool and Real Madrid, as well as a spell at Manchester City, McManaman is the most...
's sports agent
Sports agent
A sports agent procures and negotiates employment and endorsement contracts for an athlete.In return, the sports agent generally receives between 4 and 10% of the athlete's playing contract, and 10 to 20% of the athlete's endorsement contract, though these figures vary...
, securing his lucrative move to Real Madrid
Real Madrid
Real Madrid Club de Fútbol , commonly known as Real Madrid, is a professional football club based in Madrid, Spain. The club have won a record 31 La Liga titles, the Primera División of the Liga de Fútbol Profesional , 18 Copas del Rey, 8 Spanish Super Cups, 1 Copa Eva Duarte and 1 Copa de la...
, making him the world's best paid British player at the time.
In 2004 he was listed as one of the Top 10 Marketing & PR people in the UK by The Guardian newspaper. http://media.guardian.co.uk/top100_2004/index/0,,1247483,00.html
In 2007, Henry took on the role of Head of Communications at Simon Fuller
Simon Fuller
Simon Fuller is a British artist manager, television producer and creator of the Idol franchise, first seen as Pop Idol in the UK. Fuller is also the co-creator and executive producer of the Fox TV reality show So You Think You Can Dance and other U.S...
's 19 Entertainment
19 Entertainment
19 Entertainment, based in Los Angeles, United States, is a creator and producer of entertainment properties based around the areas of Music and Television / Film, including American Idol in the United States, Pop Idol in the United Kingdom as well as versions of the Idol series in more than...
where he oversees promotion of David
David Beckham
David Robert Joseph Beckham, OBE is an English footballer who plays midfield for Los Angeles Galaxy in Major League Soccer, having previously played for Manchester United, Preston North End, Real Madrid, and A.C...
and Victoria Beckham
Victoria Beckham
Victoria Caroline Beckham is an English singer-songwriter, dancer, model, actress, fashion designer and businesswoman. In the late 1990s, Beckham rose to fame with the all-female pop group Spice Girls and was dubbed Posh Spice by the July 1996 issue of the British pop music magazine Top of the Pops...
, American Idol
American Idol
American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...
TV show, the Spice Girls
Spice Girls
The Spice Girls were a British pop girl group formed in 1994. The group consisted of Victoria Beckham , Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Melanie Chisholm and Geri Halliwell. They were signed to Virgin Records and released their debut single, "Wannabe" in 1996, which hit number-one in more than 30...
and others, as well as handling all corporate affairs issues for Simon Fuller. Henry is no longer involved with Henry's House
Henry's House
House PR is a London based creative public relations agency dedicated to harnessing the power of the mass media for UK, European and international markets.- Background :...
. He was a Trustee of The ICA
Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Institute of Contemporary Arts is an artistic and cultural centre on The Mall in London, just off Trafalgar Square. It is located within Nash House, part of Carlton House Terrace, near the Duke of York Steps and Admiralty Arch...
from 2001 to 2008. He writes an occasional newspaper column for The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
.
Selected publications
- One picture does not a charity campaign make (21.11.05) The GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
. - How tabloid editors play the publicity game (19.12.2005) The Guardian.
- These budget cuts will hit the BBC where it hurts (16.1.06) The Guardian.
- In praise of pure PR - selling to the sceptical (20.2.06) The Guardian.
- Merger gives our suburban services a Hollywood edge(3.4.06) The Guardian.
- I suspect some Arctic Monkey business (24.4.06) the Guardian.
- Is building Brand UK a mission impossible? (29.5.06) The Guardian.
- The hippest brands keep their eyes on the streets (10/7/06) The GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
. - The day Lord Levy showed me the truth (14/8/06) The Guardian.
- A successful formula goes up in smoke (25/09/06) The Guardian.
- The Holy Grail of eternal appeal (23/10/06) The Guardian.
- The Celebrity Untouchables (20/11/06) The Guardian.
- Big causes, celebrity effects and the real holy grail (18/12/06) The Guardian.
- Why waste money on lessons from the School of the Bleedin' Obvious? (30/04/07) The Guardian.
- Coulson's Tory Party conference test (24/09/07) The Guardian.
- Julian Henry's double life (26/05/11) The Guardian.