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412:'s ÂŁ100 million Hospital Club project in Covent Garden. She also set up The Hospital Committee responsible for Club membership and in recent years Savidge has launched PR initiatives for Digital Animal and MOJN whilst continued to represent many of the artists she represented earlier in her career. Savidge's recent representations include
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awarded it five stars and heralded it is "an exhilarating and hilarious expose of the scene, recounted in a gloriously gossipy style with a vibrancy that sees it begging to be adapted for the screen, an addictive read which lifts the lid on the stories that hit the headlines as well as a fair few
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was published by
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saw it as "a tale of the messy, exciting and truly invigorating whirl that created an unparalleled moment in
British music. It's also a fascinating and funny step back in time to a world where demo cassettes and weekly music papers ruled Britain."
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award for Curve. In 1992 the Music Week Best PR Campaign went to Savage & Best for Suede. In 1995 and 1997 Savidge received 2nd place Music Week PR Campaign awards for Suede.
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Lindores, Mark (12 May 2019). "Lunch With The Wild
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Here They Come With Their Make Up On: Suede, Coming Up And More
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Kessler, Ted (10 July 2019). "Britpop's Svengali spills his beans".
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Jamieson, Teddy (18 May 2019). "Phill Savidge: My Life In Britpop".
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Richard Ashcroft: The Verve, Burning Money & The Human Condition
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Brown, Francesca (6 May 2019). "Top Ten Books for May".
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