Primary Wave Music has acquired producer rights and neighboring rights streams for artist manager, music critic and record producer Jon Landau.
This deal includes Landau's credits and neighboring rights to songs by Bruce Springsteen, with whom he worked as a co-producer on Born To Run, The River, Darkness on the Edge of Town, The Promise, Born in the USA, Live 1975-1985, Human Touch, Lucky Town and Tracks. The deal also carries producer and neighboring rights to his production at Jackson Browne's The pretender.
A Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Landau was a pivotal figure in rock music during his decades-long career. Landau began writing about music for publications such as Crawdaddy and The Phoenix of Boston and by 1967 he was hired by Jann Wenner as lead writer for the brand new Rolling Stone publication, a position he held for a decade.
By 1970, Landau was simultaneously writing about Rolling Stone and return to his roots as a lifelong musician by producing the MC5's debut studio album Back to the US.
He met Springsteen in 1974 after reviewing a performance by the singer-songwriter and calling him the “future” of rock music. Next year, co-producer born to run cementing both his relationship with The Boss and his career as a producer. He would go on to co-produce eight more of his records. During this time, he befriended Browne and produced 1976 The pretenderwith songs like “Here Come They Tears Again” and the title track.
Two decades later, Landau experienced another career highlight as Shania Twain's manager. He helped build the country-pop artist's career, catapulting her to true superstardom with her 1997 album come over with the song “Man! I feel like a woman!” and “You're still the one.”
Landau has also collaborated with artists such as Natalie Merchant, Train, Alejandro Escovedo, Livingston Taylor and more.
“I thank everyone at Primary Wave for recognizing my contributions over the past fifty years, and I look forward to an ongoing and productive relationship with them,” Landau says of the deal.
Marty Silverstonepresident of global synchronization at Primary Wave, adds, “We're honored to be working with Jon Landau and all the legendary music he helped shape. He is an influential figure in music and we are proud to welcome him to the Primary Wave family.”
The transaction between Landau and Primary Wave Music was facilitated by David Simon and Winston Simon.
