Whilst at The University of Leicester in the late 1960's Richard Ogden discovered that a living could be made in the still-fledgling British Music Industry. Using the contacts he made as Arts Editor of the Student Newspaper “Ripple” and Publisher of his own Fanzine, "Fast & Bulbous" and Freelance writer for “ZigZag” he found his first job as Press Officer at Liberty-United Artists on his graduation in the summer of 1971.

29 years later, after a number of years in senior positions in various Recording and Artist Management Companies, Richard decided it was time to go out again on his own (as he had in 1973) so he set up Richard Ogden Management Ltd.

From 2000 to 2005 Richard Ogden Management Ltd. focused on Artist Management, representing Finnish hip-pop stars The Bomfunk MCs , Polydor UK singer Nerina Pallot, Swedish star MEJA and 18 year old punk-influenced singer/songwriter/guitarist Tatiana De Maria and her band TAT . Other R.O.M. projects during that period included helping  Kevin Rowland to deliver two new singles to EMI and re activate  Dexys Midnight Runners, advising Van Morrison on the future structure of Exile Productions and acting as Consultants to Decca International to help create the million+ selling international debut album of New Zealand starlet Hayley Westenra . R . O . M . also specialises in "International Management", working closely with the local management of superstars Ivete Sangalo and   Sandy & Junior and also as European Consultants to Angelo Medina begin_of_the_skype_highlighting       end_of_the_skype_highlighting Productions in Puerto Rico ( formerly Ricky Martin and now Mana ) .

Prior to setting up RICHARD OGDEN MANAGEMENT Ltd. in 2000 Richard had an eclectic career in the Music Industry. Starting out as Press Officer at Liberty-United Artists in 1971, Richard soon found an outlet for his catholic musical tastes when he found himself handling a diverse roster of artists ranging from the legendary Alternative “space-rock” band Hawkwind through Showbiz diva Shirley Bassey. By doing so Richard became an accomplished Music P.R., confident enough - after a brief spell at Atlantic Records during which time he worked on The Rolling Stones 1973 European Tour - to open his own P.R. Agency, the aptly named "Heavy Publicity". Through the 1970's Richard built an impressive client roster which included . Black Sabbath , Aerosmith , Hawkwind , Ted Nugent , The Average White Band , Kansas, Styx, REO Speedwagon, The Tubes, Black Oak Arkansas and Bobby Womack.

In search of another challenge in 1976 Richard decided to combine Artist Management with Publicity and so embarked upon his first career as a Manager, initially co-managing Speed-metal pioneers Motorhead and dj turned soul-singer Al Matthews with Hawkwind’s Manager Doug Smith before forming classic British post-punkers The Motors and The Motors' spin-off Bram Tchaikovsky. Later, Richard also managed Richard Jobson and his band The Skids. By 1979 he was doing well enough to be able to give Heavy Publicity to his partners and concentrate solely on Artist Management for the next few years.

In 1982 after a number of simultaneous setbacks to his Management business, Richard felt it was time for another change and became a pioneer in his own right when he became one of the first artist managers to accept a senior role at a Record Company, as Head of International Marketing at Polygram and then from 1985-1987 as Managing Director of Polydor Records. During his time at Polydor Richard worked closely with Paul Weller , Level 42 , Tears for Fears, Bryan Ferry, The Cure and Siouxsie and The Banshees.  In 1986 Richard signed Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical blockbuster Phantom of the Opera  to the label. Shipping double Platinum in the UK, "Phantom" became the only Original Cast Album ever to debut at #1 on the UK Album charts, since when it has gone on to sell an all-time record-breaking 22 Million Units (apparently!).

In 1987, through the late Brian Brolly, M.D. of The Really Useful Group and former Manager of Paul McCartney , Richard met Linda McCartney’s brother, lawyer John Eastman who invited Richard to become Managing Director of the McCartney's Management Company, MPL Communications Ltd. During the six years that Richard ran MPL Paul and Linda McCartney  both enjoyed a period of creative and commercial success which included many "firsts" and #1's, including the first ever " MTV Unplugged " Album in 1991; the #1 US Tour of 1990; the biggest ever paying audience for a single-artiste Concert (Paul McCartney at The Maracana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, April 1990, attended by an estimated 350,000 people); the UK #1 Album ("Flowers in the Dirt" 1989); Paul McCartney's best-selling album ("All the Best" 1988); the first ever Album by a Western pop artiste recorded exclusively for the Official Russian State Record Label ("The Russian Album" 1991); Paul McCartney's first Classical Album, for his work as Executive Producer on the TV Documentary about which Richard was nominated for an "Emmy" Award; the UK's best selling vegetarian cookery book (Linda McCartney's Vegetarian Cookery) and the launch in 1992 of the late Linda McCartney's eponymous and ground-breaking range of vegetarian frozen food.

But in 1993 after more than six years at MPL it became time for another change and Richard accepted the position of Senior Vice-President, Marketing at Sony Music Europe, where he stayed until September 2000. During this time Sony enjoyed three years as the #1 European Record Company and created an unsurpassable series of sales plateaus with artists like Mariah Carey , Celine Dion , The Fugees, Oasis and Savage Garden, These were marked by Richard's creation, the " IFPI Platinum Europe Award ",the prototype of which Richard had the privilege of presenting to Mariah Carey to mark 7 Million European sales of her album "Music Box" in 1994.

In 2007 Richard re-located to Sao Paulo Brasil where he continued to provide Consultancy services to his European clients (MJM Music, Eastern Talent Group, EM Concerts, Espelho de Cultura) whilst at the same time expanding his activities in Brasil through Ozone Entretenimento Ltda. to include providing Consultancy Services not only to Ivete Sangalo and her Management Company Caco de Telha but also to Porto Alegre-based Concert Promoter H4 and – since March 2010 – to Luiz Oscar Niemeyer’s Planmusic. In February 2010 he grouped all three clients together to co-promote the debut Brasilian tour of American superstar BEYONCE, who played to more than 150,000 people over 5 shows. Upcoming projects in 2010 include Ivete Sangalo at Madison Square Garden, the first Brasilian artist ever to play (and sell-out) that famous building and tours in Brasil by Peter Frampton, Massive Attack and Bombay Bicycle Club.