Longtime industry veteran Neil Lasher has died from complications related to coronavirus on Sunday morning (April 5).
His passing was confirmed by several of his colleagues. Lasher was 73 and had been in the hospital in Connecticut battling COVID-19 for the last several days.
Lasher worked both as a label and music publishing executive for more than four decades. He was best known for his tenure at EMI Music Publishing, where, according to his LinkedIn page, he worked for 21 years, from 1986 to 2007, rising to VP promotion, marketing and artist relations.
In the ‘90s, Lasher also worked on the label side, doing rock promotion for labels, including SBK Records, the label co-founded by Martin Bandier, who ran EMI Music Publishing at the time.