Profile of Company - Minder Music

MINDER MUSIC LIMITED is an independent UK Music Publishing Company which was started over twenty five years ago by JOHN FOGARTY and BETH CLOUGH.
 
In recent years the company has built up a number of copyrights which it owns and controls throughout the World. The catalogue comprises an eclectic mix of works from the 1920's music hall classic “LAUGHING POLICEMAN” all the way to the silky FM sounds of ACE’S “HOW LONG”, via many R&B classics originally recorded by THE GAP BAND ("OOPS UPSIDE YOUR HEAD", "OUTSTANDING", etc.), FATBACK BAND ("I FOUND LOVIN'", "BUS STOP", etc.), JIMMY CASTOR ("IT'S JUST BEGUN", "TROGLODYTE", etc.). etc.
 
In addition, MINDER also administers catalogues of copyrights such as ABC CIRCLE/ AMERICAN BROADCASTING MUSIC and BOB SEGER’S GEAR PUBLISHING CO., as well as the fabulous SCHROEDER catalogue which spans classics from the 50's-60's recorded by SINATRA, GENE PITNEY, BOBBY VEE and the KING OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL himself, ELVIS PRESLEY.

ROBBIE WILLIAMS, JOHN FOGARTY, GUY CHAMBERS at MINDER'S OFFICE

JOHN FOGARTY started his career in the music business as accountant for ROD STEWART’s Management Company - GAFF MANAGEMENT. After that, John worked briefly with accountants GOLDBERG RAVDEN looking after the affairs of the BAY CITY ROLLERS and HOT CHOCOLATE amongst others. Shortly after that John decided to form his own company, CAVALCADE, which jointly promoted concerts in JAPAN with Japanese partners for major artists such as ROD STEWART, BLONDIE, FLEETWOOD MAC, CHEAP TRICK etc.
 

18 yr. old PATRICK FOGARTY (MINDER) and BETH CLOUGH (R) Creative Director at MINDER meet
legendary AHMET ERTEGUN (R.I.P) at the ATLANTIC RECORDS New York Offices.
BETH CLOUGH joined CAVALCADE as an assistant and progressed to help set up and run the Publishing Division when JOHN decided to go into Music Publishing and formed MINDER MUSIC LIMITED in 1985.
 
MINDER MUSIC opened an office in SOUTH AFRICA - MINDER MUSIC AFRICA C.C. MINDER AFRICA is run by PAT CLOUGH. This is an exciting territory which is expanding rapidly now. MINDER AFRICA represents ABC & BOB SEGER’s GEAR PUBLISHING together with its own catalogues for this territory. 
 
MINDER MUSIC AUSTRALIA and MINDER MUSIC ITALIA have also been set up to represent MINDER'S catalogues.

In 2007 MINDER MUSIC INC opened their Los Angeles offices on Sunset Boulevard.