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  <body>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class="image_right" src="/editor_images/0000/0454/Steve_Levine___photographer_credit_Rosie_Levine.jpg" border="0" alt="Steve Levine (hi res)" title="Steve Levine (hi res)" width="285" height="217" /&gt;The board of the Guild is extemely happy to welcome Steve to this new post, and everyone is looking forward to this new chapter in the development of our organisation. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Says Steve: "I am really thrilled that the Music Producers Guild has asked me to be the next chairman. Mike has done a superb job, as witnessed by the huge success of the inaugural Music Producers Guild Awards earlier this year &amp;ndash; an event that has significantly raised our profile.&amp;nbsp; I intend to build on the positive effect that the Awards have achieved."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Press coverage&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.audioprointernational.com/news/1160/Steve-Levine-joins-the-MPG-UK" target="_blank"&gt;ProSound News&lt;/a&gt; &amp;bull;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&amp;amp;storycode=1037537" target="_blank"&gt;Music Week&lt;/a&gt; &amp;bull; &lt;a href="http://www.basca.org.uk/news/steve-levine-appointed-chairman-of-the-mpg.html" target="_blank"&gt;BASCA&lt;/a&gt; &amp;bull; &lt;a href="http://www.mi-pro.co.uk/news/30162/MPG-appoints-Levine" target="_blank"&gt;MI-Pro&lt;/a&gt; &amp;bull; &lt;a href="http://news.proaudioguide.com/news/index.php?s1=2&amp;amp;id=20543&amp;amp;go=news_detail" target="_blank"&gt;ProAudio Guide&lt;/a&gt; &amp;bull; &lt;a href="http://mobile.audioprointernational.com/news/1160/Steve-Levine-joins-the-MPG-UK" target="_blank"&gt;AudioPro International&lt;/a&gt; &amp;bull; &lt;a href="http://www.allbusiness.com/entertainment-arts/music-industry/12314712-1.html" target="_blank"&gt;AllBusiness&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;Read the &lt;strong&gt;Music Week interview&lt;/strong&gt; with Steve Levine &lt;a href="../folders/33/topics/128" target="_self"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</body>
  <created-at type="datetime">2009-06-30T09:39:15+00:00</created-at>
  <date type="date">2009-04-20</date>
  <id type="integer">147</id>
  <name>The Music Producers Guild has a new chairman!</name>
  <public-access>Public</public-access>
  <teaser>Legendary record producer, Steve Levine has been appointed as the new chairman of the Music Producers Guild, following the departure of Mike Howlett.</teaser>
  <updated-at type="datetime">2009-06-30T09:47:51+00:00</updated-at>
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