Andy Wickham
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Andrew Wickham (9 May 1947 – 29 March 2022)[1] was a British native who became prominent in the U.S. music business as a producer, A&R director, and talent scout in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
Wickham had worked as a commercial artist in London, and was employed at Andrew Loog Oldham's Immediate Records label before moving to Los Angeles to work for Lou Adler's Dunhill label. He met Warner Bros. Records executive Mo Ostin at the Monterey International Pop Festival in 1967, and was hired as the label's "company freak"[2] to scout new talent and forge a bond between rebellious young artists and established Warner Bros. executives.
In 1975, he was assigned to oversee the establishment of Warner's Country Music division in Nashville.[3]
Artists signed
As an executive at Warner Bros./Reprise, Wickham signed Joni Mitchell,[4] Eric Andersen, Jethro Tull, Van Morrison, Gram Parsons,[5] Emmylou Harris, Buck Owens, Guy Clark, A-HA and others to recording contracts.