Sting and Peter Frampton celebrated the achievements of A&M Data mogul Jerry Moss at a live performance over the weekend.
Hosted by David Foster and that includes performances from artists reminiscent of Amy Grant and Dionne Warwick, the live performance was staged on the Mark Taper Discussion board in Los Angeles on Saturday evening.
In a pre-taped speech, Sting praised the trumpet participant and his enterprise accomplice Herb Alpert for trusting the musicians they signed to their label.
“You each had a dream, and that dream was realised by trusting the artists that you just signed, trusting their instincts, and that grew to become one of the crucial profitable firms within the historical past of music. And, after all, we benefitted from that,” he mentioned, in line with Selection. “After which, if you left that enterprise, you took up horse racing with the identical diploma of judgment and, after all, comedian luck.”
Elsewhere, singer Peter recounted a dialog with Jerry earlier than the occasion.
“I will simply rapidly say that after we met this afternoon right here… Jerry requested me, ‘Are you gonna play?’ I mentioned, ‘Yeah,'” he recalled. “Ever the A&R man, he mentioned, ‘You gonna gimme some new music?’ So I mentioned, ‘Jerry, it is coming. It is coming. I promise you. Do not put me on suspension once more.”
Jerry and Herb based A&M Data in 1962.
