The former US boss of Sony Music Distribution, Danny Yarbrough, has died in his sleep in Savannah, Georgia, at the age of 64.
Yarbrough joined CBS Records in 1965 as a sales rep in Atlanta, and moved up the ranks to become branch manager of the company's southwest office in Dallas. He subsequently became VP of sales for CBS's Columbia Records, before making the move to Senior VP of sales and distribution in 1989. He became overall head of the distribution division of what was by then Sony Music US in 1994, later becoming its chairman. He left the major in 2003 and joined Musicland, but only stayed for a year before moving on to become an industry consultant and work on other music projects.
A service for Yarbrough will be held in Savannah tomorrow.