Sir Harry:

Sir Harry (Cowell) entered the music business in 1980 as a drummer with several of his friends at Crawley College, including Rob Smith (The Easy Cure/The Cure).  He toured with The Stranglers and The Vapours before being offered a job via EST to hit the road as a Drum Tech for music legends Genesis.  He developed through the ranks of teching into tour management; such tours included acts such as The Police, The Passions, TRB, AC-DC, Ozzy Osbourne, Fischer-Z, Gillan, Mammoth, UFO and Saga.

In 1986 Sir Harry opened up his very first Recording Studio called ‘The Stone Room’ in Shepherds Bush, London, where he worked with The Manic Street Preachers, T’Pau, Geoff Downes, My Bloody Valentine, Captain Sensible and The Damned.  He expanded his sphere of activities into working with and managing music producers who included the very noteworthy Nick Griffiths (Pink Floyd) and Ian Caple (The Manic Street Preachers, Tindersticks).

In 1991 Sir Harry set up a new Management company with industry legend Simon Napier-Bell who had worked with The Yardbirds, Marc Bolan, Japan and Wham.

He then expanded into the international arena of Personal Management looking after the careers of Asia, Ultravox, Helen Terry, Toby Bourke (Top 10 with George Michael), Michael Garvin (Co-Writer of ‘Never give up on a good thing’ and ‘Waiting for tonight’), Blue Mercedes, Geoff Downes (The Buggles, YES, GTR and Asia), and Mark Shaw (Then Jerico).

In 2001 Sir Harry joined Rive Droite Music as Director of A&R and within 3 months had taken over and become Managing Director of Production and Music Publishing and was responsible for the premises four recording studios.  Rive Droite was responsible for writing and producing hits for Kylie Minogue ‘On a night like this’, Enrique Iglesias ‘Hero’ and ‘Bailamos’, Jimmy Nail ‘Ain’t no doubt’, Cher ‘Believe’ as well as chart success with Steps, Celine Dion, Ricky Martin, Lionel Richie, Andrea Bocelli, Tina Turner and Rod Stewart.

During his time as Managing Director of Rive Droite Music, he was responsible for a number of major music highlights including signing Classical Brit Award winner Katherine Jenkins, Producer and Songwriter Ben ‘Jammin’ Robbins (Tina Arena, Heather Small, Katherine Jenkins), Producer and Songwriter Ash Alexander (Debra Stephenson, Amy Studt, Noise Next Door), the French Eurovision 2004 entry with Jonatan Cerrada, productions and cuts on the multi-million selling Russian Super Boyband Smash!! (Universal) and worldwide No.1’s including Belgium’s Natalia (BMG), Australia’s Anthony Callea (Sony BMG), Greece’s Mario Frangoulis (Sony Classics), Italy’s Earphones (FMA/Universal) and Spain’s Bellepop (Warner’s) to mention but a few.

Sir Harry departed Rive Droite Music whilst the company enjoyed hits with the Backstreet Boys, Keith Urban, Noise Next Door, LeAnn Rimes, Cliff Richard, GioAria, Katherine Jenkins, The Freemasons and Faith Hill.

At Private and Confidential Music, Sir Harry oversees the selection and writing of songs/productions and management of artists.