4 Star Rock - Tel: +44 (0)1302 811631

4 Star Rock: a dedicated team of people.

4 Star Rock is a small dedicated team of industry professionals with international experience at the highest level.

Founded by Kevin Donoghue, who has worked very closely with hit artists the Darling Buds, who sold 250,000 copies of their first album, which was top 25 and was licensed to CBS and from which they had three top 40 singles.

He has work for or with the following companies:

CBS, RCA, Sony, RCA Publishing, Sony Music, Virgin Records, Warner Chappell music, Phonogram, Mute, 4AD, Factory, Rough trade, Cherry Red, Red Rhino, PIAS,

Involvement with other Notable Artists include:

Trak One: who went on to become the Utah Saints No 1 UK & Europe
Neil Hiende: who became the Lisa Marie experience No 1 UK & Europe
Treebound Story: who became the Long Pigs Top 20 UK
Richard Hawley: Pulp, All Saints, Beth Orton, Solo Artist Top 20 Uk
Those Meddling Kids: who went on to become HONKY Top 50 UK
Fatal Charm, Zoot and the roots Top 75

And others such as:
The Screaming Trees, The Snapdragons and Smashing Orange - No 1 independent artists and NME/ John Peel favourites. Nine Inch Nails, on whose debut album, Kevin was given a credit and who have toured America with David Bowie.

Founder of Native and Ozone records he also managed Strikeforce UK Ltd, which became the De Rigueur marketing tool for the Independent Trade and he was involved in the promotion of The Eurythmics, Erasure, Stevie Wonder, Lionel Richie, Hall & Oates, Pointer Sisters, Chris De Burgh, Rick Wakeman, Public Enemy, Eternal, Lisa Marie Experience, Honky, Taffy, The Mission, All About Eve, Sundays, The Primatives, Happy Mondays, Nine Inch Nails, The Wedding Present, Sisters of Mercy, That Petrol Emotion, Black, KLF, Puff Daddy, Def Jam, the Wedding Present, Erazure, David Bowie, Honky, The Primatives, Richard Hawley, Pulp, Chumba Wumba, Kid Rad, Just Jack, Sol, The Bay City Rollers, Poco,.

He was a founding Director of Music Factory who achieved No1’s with Jive Bunny.

He has twenty years experience in the music industry and has managed top forty Artists for CBS and SONY, worked as a Record Producer, Sound Engineer, Mastering Engineer, Producer, Promoter, Plugger, Label Manager, Artists Manager, Agent, Representative, Publisher and was a Senior Lecturer in Sound Recording and Music Business Affairs.

He was rewarded for his work for RCA with a Triple Platinum Disc for achieving a number 1 single and album and over 1 million sales.

He has a HND in Graphics from Leeds Polytechnic and a Cert Education from huddersfield University.