"Maybe what I'll say is this: I've done 10 years of this. I'm going to let someone else take on the internecine warfare that seems to be endemic to the music industry!"
Even when he's playing a straight bat to a sensitive question – in this case, one about whether songwriters deserve a bigger slice of the music-streaming royalties pie – PRS for Music CEO Robert Ashcroft has a way with a one-liner.
At the end of 2019, he'll step down as the British collecting society's boss, exactly 10 years after his appointment as chief executive. It's thus the last time Ashcroft will be doing his now-traditional Music Ally interview to mark the publication of PRS for Music's annual figures.
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