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<div>{{Short description|British entertainment lawyer (born 1953)}}<br />
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'''John Kennedy''' (born 1953, in London) is a British [[entertainment]] [[lawyer]] whose career has been largely in the record industry.<br />
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Kennedy started his career as a lawyer, working at several record companies. In 1983, he set up a private agency specializing in the music industry. He was awarded an [[OBE]] in 1985 for his work as a trustee of the [[Band Aid (band)|Band Aid]] Trust and [[Live Aid]].<br />
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In 1996, Kennedy accepted the post of chairman and CEO at [[PolyGram]] Music and Film. He was also appointed chairman and CEO of the newly created Universal UK, the largest record company in the UK, and provided the investment (on behalf of Universal UK) to launch the musical ''[[Mamma Mia! (musical)|Mamma Mia!]]'', one of the most successful theatrical productions ever.<br />
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Kennedy was appointed president and chief operating officer at Universal Music International, the largest record company in the world, in 2001. He, [[Bob Geldof]] and [[Harvey Goldsmith]] produced in July 2005 the ten [[Live 8]] concerts and DVDs around the world. Subsequently, they were made Chevalier de [[l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres]] by the French government.<br />
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Kennedy was the chairman and CEO of [[IFPI]], an organization representing the recording industry worldwide with a membership of 1,400 record companies. He left the organization in June 2010.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_news/20100624.html|title=John Kennedy to step down as Chairman and CEO of IFPI|date=24 June 2010|publisher=[[IFPI]]| website= ifpi.org| accessdate=31 July 2010|url-status= dead| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20100708060819/http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_news/20100624.html|archivedate=8 July 2010|df=dmy-all}}</ref><br />
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In 2024, Kennedy was executive producer for the Band Aid Trust for the musical ''Just For One Day: The Story of the Live Aid'', and published his memoir, ''Just for One Hour''.<br />
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The '''Game Boy Sound System''' ('''GBS''') is a file format containing [[Nintendo]] [[Game Boy]] sound driver data designed for the Game Boy [[Game Boy#Hardware|sound hardware]].<br />
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GBS rips are an arduous task often involving debuggers and compiled assembly code, as there was no uniform sound driver for each Game Boy game. As a result, GBS players and the files themselves emulate just enough of the original hardware and ROM data to play back the music driver and data.<br />
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==Players==<br />
*Kobarin Media Player - Includes a front end, supports GBS and many chiptune formats natively, has a Winamp plugin converter.<br />
*[[Audacious (software)|Audacious]] - [[*nix]] player that accepts GBS.<br />
*Chipamp - Winamp plug-in bundle compiled by [[OverClocked ReMix]] allowing playback of over 40 chiptune and tracker formats<br />
*gbsplay - Open source player (Linux, *nix) (and [[XMMS]] plugin in older versions)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mmitch.github.io/gbsplay/|title=Gbsplay - Gameboy sound player}}</ref><br />
*NEZPlug++ - Winamp plug-in that currently supports the most up-to-date implementation of the GBS format. <br />
*Audio Overload - A media player capable of playing a variety of audio formats from vintage consoles and computers.<br />
*Noise Entertainment System - a NSF/e (NES Sound File), GBS, [[VGM (file format)|VGM]] and [[SPC file format|SPC]] player for the iPhone and iPod touch.<br />
*[[VLC Media Player]]<br />
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