Life
Jeremy, a keen amateur cricketer who still plays the game as opening batsmen, is currently CEO of Chrysalis Music plc. He has been involved in the music industry since the early 1970s. This included playing percussion for the Global Village Trucking Company, for whom his older brother James Lascelles played keyboards. He then became a tour promoter before moving to Virgin in the late 1970s. He rose to Head of A&R under Richard Branson and set up his own independent label (Offside Records - named after his favourite cricket shot) before being hired by Chris Wright of Chrysalis. He is known for his ambivalence to being born into the Royal Family (his godmother was Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother). He is on the shortlist for the 2010 Orange Business Person of the Year. He is also a lifelong Leeds United supporter as is his son Thomas.
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