Perfect Songs

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Perfect Songs is a music publishing company founded in 1982 by Trevor Horn and his his wife Jill Sinclair. It is part of the SPZ group of companies owned by Horn and his associates, which also includes Sarm Studios (recording studios), Horn Productions (record production by Trevor Horn), ZTT Records/Stiff Records (record labels), Music Bank (equipment hire) and Waterloo Sunset (rehearsal facilities).

Horn and Sinclair founded the company soon after they acquired Basing Street Studios, in order to harness and develop up and coming young artists working in the recording studio. there was also Perfect Recordings, which released Buggles records in 1981 and is considered a forerunner to ZTT.

The first to be signed to Perfect Songs were Frankie Goes to Hollywood, followed by the Art of Noise and Propaganda. These first few signings to the company were instrumental in establishing the company ethos of "innovation and artiste development, taking risks and signing acts far into the left field"

Successful songwriters signed to Perfect Songs include Seal, Ian Brown, Gabrielle, Shane MacGowan, Marsha Ambrosius, Alistair Griffin and Paul Simm (writer of the hit "Overload" for the Sugababes).

The company has since been involved in a number of high profile lawsuits relating to the contracts of signed artists who later claimed unfair treatment, notably Holly Johnson, of Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and the group Propaganda.

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• Perfect Songs
• SPZ Group
• From Billboard November 26 1988