Paul was responsible for first tours by The Stranglers and The Police

Paul King has been an artist manager and concert promoter for more than 30 years.

Paul still holds the record for the longest run of consecutive shows by any artist at Wembley Arena (14 nights - Dire Straits) and artists managed by Paul have sold over 32 million records under his direction.

For many years Paul also acted as a record promotion consultant in America and at one point was responsible for having four singles in the Billboard top 20 at the same time.

Paul started promoting live shows at Brunel University in 1970 whilst studying Nuclear Chemistry. Brunel fast became a major venue on the touring circuit with concerts by Elton John, Genesis, Humble Pie, The Kinks, The Sex Pistols and many more.

After leaving college Paul was responsible for first tours by The Stranglers, Sade, Tom Robinson, Dire Straits, The Police and many others. He was the co-promoter of The Silver Clef Award Winners Knebworth Show featuring: Pink Floyd, Sir Paul McCartney, Genesis, Eric Clapton, Dire Straits, Sir Cliff Richard, Sir Elton John, Status Quo and Tears for Fears. The 120,000 capacity show has raised over £6 million for The Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy Charity.

Paul helped manage The Teardrop Explodes in the early eighties. As Julian Cope went solo, Paul helped Julian become an enormously credible solo artist. Julian enjoyed immense artistic control to the point of having a lucrative record deal with Island Records and being able to release some of his material on his own independent label at the same time.

Two of Julian's greatest fans were Tears for Fears. At their request, Paul became their manager just before the release of Mad World, which went straight to number 3 in the UK charts. Twenty years on Mad World was the first UK number song in 2004. Songwriters take note.

When Paul took over the management of Level 42, Polygram would not release their product in America. Within a year they were persuaded to reverse that decision and with Paul?s help at radio, the band had a top 5, US single and a gold album.

Breathe, another UK based band remain the only group in the history of A&M records to have three top 5 singles from a first album in the US. This album went platinum.

Paul has specialised in breaking acts on American radio. He has been retained by a number of labels to help promote US based artists. The most unusual request came from Polygram when Paul was called in to help with a Russian Band called Gorky Park. The assignment was accepted and the single went top 20 on Billboard, the Album going on to sell over 350,000 copies.