{{Short description|British music production company}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Multiple issues| {{advert|date=August 2012}} {{COI|date=October 2011}} }}

{{Infobox company | name = Reliable Source Music Ltd. | logo_size = 200px | foundation = 1997 | location_city = London | location_country = United Kingdom | genre = Various | industry = Music | products = Music | homepage = {{URL|reliable-source.co.uk}} }}

'''Reliable Source Music''' ('''RSM''') is a UK music production and publishing company that provides music to media professionals. RSM creates music for advertising, TV, video, radio, film, multimedia, and corporate use, either off the shelf or written to order.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.reliable-source.co.uk/about/index.php |title=About Reliable Source Music |website=www.reliable-source.co.uk |language=en |access-date=23 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110905214640/http://www.reliable-source.co.uk/about/index.php |archive-date=September 5, 2011}}</ref> As of March 2019, the company had a library of over 100,000 tracks.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?storyCode=1042662&sectioncode=1 |title=Music Week |publisher=Music Week |date= |accessdate=2013-03-04}}</ref> This includes RSM's music and sub-publishing deals with other music libraries worldwide.

==Key staff== The company was established in 1997<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cdrex.com/reliable-source-music-limited-3220746.html |title=Reliable Source Music Limited |publisher=Cdrex.com |date=2011-08-31 |accessdate=2013-03-04}}</ref> by Dr. Wayne Bickerton, the managing director until November 2015. Following the passing of Dr. Wayne Bickerton in November 2015, the company was sold to Intervox Production Music in October 2017. In January 2019, Martin Weinert was hired as the chairman of the board of Directors alongside Kenny Orr and Gilda Fulco as Directors.

==Notable clients== Reliable Source Music has provided music to many TV programs, including ''Top Gear'',<ref>{{cite web |author= |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiAbcw5s9_8 |title=VW Beetle Dropped from Helicopter Vs Porsche in 1 Mile Race Against Gravity! - Top Gear - BBC Two |publisher=YouTube |date=2011-01-25 |accessdate=2013-03-04 |archive-date=29 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160729180957/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiAbcw5s9_8 |url-status=live }}</ref> ''The X-Files'', ''A Question of Sport'', ''EastEnders'', and ''Doctor Who Confidential''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.reliable-source.co.uk/showreel/ |title=RSM Production Music Library // Show Reel |publisher=Reliable-source.co.uk |accessdate=2013-03-04 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110905083321/http://www.reliable-source.co.uk/showreel/ |archivedate=2011-09-05 }}</ref> RSM has also supplied music for advertising campaigns for companies such as Easyjet, Johnnie Walker, Persil, and Vodafone.

==Composers== Several composers have worked for the company, including Brian Bennett, John Cameron and Wayne Bickerton, founders of the company and composers of successful songs throughout the 1970s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rubettesfeaturingbillhurd.com/songs.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091111142116/http://www.rubettesfeaturingbillhurd.com/songs.htm |archive-date=November 11, 2009 |url-status=unfit |title=The Songwriters |language=en |access-date=22 August 2023}}</ref>

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==External links== * {{official website|https://www.reliable-source.co.uk}}

Category:Local mass media in London Category:Production music