Following their individual successful careers at the helm of their own independent promotions companies ‘Red Shadow' & ‘Station To Station', these sons of Uranus and Gaea collaborate their interests, skills and prolific experience to deliver key services across the sectors of TV & Radio promotions through TURNERSPEAR LTD.
Previous experience honed from heading up corporate departments at A&M, EMI, Mercury and Warner Records, catapulting new artists and cultivating existing divas through all genres has provided the ideal perpetuam for their multiple successes.
Their impressive legacies include:- Meatloaf, Lou Reed, Michael McDonald, Eddie Grant, ABC, Soft Cell, Big Country, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Tears For Fears, Dire Straits Cameo, Def Leppard, INXS, Bon Jovi & worked closely with Elton John as part of the management team. Sheryl Crow, Sting, Soundgarden, Bryan Adams, Janet Jackson, Sounds Of Blackness, Extreme, Therapy?, The Bluetones, DJ Shadow, Del Amitri, Dina Carroll, Barry White & the A:M P:M, label featuring Ultra Nate, Mousse T Duran-Duran, REM, Queen, Kate Bush, Sting, Janet-Jackson, Talking Heads, Petshop Boys, Prince, Madonna, ZZ Top, Rod Stewart, Van Halen, Eric Clapton. Muse, Longpigs, Bluetones, Terrorvision, The Maccabees, Keane, Feeder, Zero 7, Airborne Toxic Event...to name a few!
Julian Spear
Julian joined Phonogram, now Mercury, as Head of Promotions, working closely with Chris Briggs, A&R Executive at Sony Music. He helped to establish ABC, Soft Cell, Big Country, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Tears For Fears, Dire Straits (including the 3 million-selling Brothers In Arms album), Cameo, Def Leppard, INXS, Bon Jovi & worked closely with Elton John as a member of the management team.
Julian then became Senior Director Of Promotions with A&M, working closely with a broad range of artists including Sheryl Crow, Sting, Soundgarden, Bryan Adams, Janet Jackson, Sounds Of Blackness, Extreme, Therapy?, The Bluetones, DJ Shadow, Del Amitri, Dina Carroll, Barry White & the A:M P:M, label featuring Ultra Nate, Mousse T.
He went on to form Red Shadow Ltd when A&M was absorbed into Universal in 1998, continuing to represent Sting, Sheryl Crow & Suzanne Vega, then adding Counting Crows and helping to break the "Want One" & "Want Two" albums for Rufus Wainwright.
His passion working with Music For Nations, lead to the breaking of Bowling For Soup (‘Girl All The Bad Guys Want' & the "Drunk Enough To Dance" GOLD album) and INME (the "Overgrown Eden" SILVER debut album).
Julian also worked with Mercury on Meatloaf's GOLD ‘Couldn't Have Said It Better' album, Sony's ‘NYC Man - Best Of Lou Reed' album & Michael McDonald's ‘Soul Speak' & Eddy Grant's Best Of - ‘Road To Reparation' albums, both for Universal Music TV.
Jon Turner
Jon Turner has had rich experience in the music industry heading up corporate departments in radio promotions at EMI, A&M & Warner Music.
Covering diverse genres including World Music, Ambient, Americana, Indie Guitar to Alternative Rock.
Jon's legacy is Duran-Duran, REM, Queen, Kate Bush, Sting, Janet-Jackson, Talking Heads, Petshop Boys, Prince, Madonna, ZZ Top, Rod Stewart, Van Halen, Eric Clapton.
As an indie, Jon has helped break Muse, Longpigs, Bluetones, Terrorvision, The Maccabees, Keane, Feeder, Zero 7, Airborne Toxic Event...to name a few!
