UMG's POST-GRAMMY PARTY: THESE PEOPLE HAVE STAMINA

After this relentless week, we don't really know how Sir Lucian Grainge and the other UMG folk pictured here are still upright, let alone posing in their finery in the hours AFTER the Grammys ended, but that's what makes them professionals. Don't try this at home, kids.


"I'm hallucinating," confided Global Classics and Jazz and Verve Label Group chief Dickon Stainer as Sir Grainge, Best New Artist winner Samara Joy, UMG EVP Michele Anthony and Verve President Jamie Krents figured this probably wasn't a dream because they were fully dressed and their surroundings looked nothing like eighth-grade homeroom.

Republic chief Monte Lipman and Grainge flank legend Stevie Wonder, who wondered if the canapés would be vegan again.


Sir Lucian and UMPG topper Jody Gerson quietly prayed that nobody from HITS would show up.

Interscope Geffen A&M ruler John Janick confessed to LG that his tux is so comfortable that he sometimes wears it as jammies.

Virgin co-head Nat Pastor confesses that he suddenly has a hankering for Chex Mix.

Claudia Resnikoff, country superstar Shania Twain and UMe ruler Bruce Resnikoff noted that their dreams from 1991-97 have been enjoying a resurgence.


Republic EVP Danielle Price and Monte Lipman flank artist Kiana Ledé, who is spearheading a new transparency initiative.


Chart-ruling prior BNA winner Olivia Rodrigo, who presented the trophy to Samara Joy this year, opines that our publication is an excellent sleep aid.


Universal Music Central Europe and Deutsche Grammophon Chairman/CEO Frank Briegmann notes to Sir Grainge that the Grammys are much funnier in the original German.

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