The British executive recounts growing up in the male-dominated business of the ’60s and ’70s and working with ABBA, The Zombies and more.
.) Bocu published the B-side of ABBA’s first single, 1974 Eurovision winner “Waterloo,” and, within a few years, Broughton and Spalding became the Swedish supergroup’s co-agent and sub-publisher, developing a close relationship with the band .Broughton toured with ABBA in 1977, “helping backstage with the ironing of the outfits,” she recalls. Over time, she used the contacts she made with ABBA to help her old friends from the ’60s, The Zombies.
Broughton’s career-long focus on publishing, as opposed to working at record labels, served her well in the early 2000s when mp3s, Napster and online piracy threatened to destroy the album sales business. Licensing copyrights for films, TV shows and advertisements kept Bocu afloat. “We still had great copyrights and masters that were in demand,” she says.
There were issues with streaming licenses and how to pay artists and songwriters at first, but eventually performance rights organizations such as the United Kingdom’s PRS for Music sorted out the details. Although Broughton’s company has expanded beyond the music business in recent years — it owns a fish restaurant in Essex and a portfolio of rental properties run by her 33-year-old son — she remains active in Bocu. “I should probably have long since retired,” she says.
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