“If you told me when I was growing up in that small house in Parkside that one day I’d find myself here, looking out at all of you, I would have said you're nuts.
“But looking back I see how my boyhood passion for music, which I inherited, set me on my path. For as long as I can remember, I just loved music... and starting at the age of 17 in the music business, it’s been my life’s work.”
Sir Lucian, 59, started out working as a runner for a talent scouting company. His father Cecil owned a record store and his older brother Nigel Grainge, who died in 2017, was also a music executive.
In 2011, he became the chief executive of Universal Music, and has topped Billboard’s list of the most powerful people in the industry four times since.
He was knighted in the Queen’s 2016 birthday honours.
