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A Personal History of the British Music Business 105 – Kay O’Dwyer

As dedicated readers will have realised, these interviews were originally intended to form part of a general, rather than personal, history of the British music business, a post retirement project some 25 years ago. That never happened, but more recently … Continue reading

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A Personal History of the British Record History 101 – Harry Walters Pt.2 and conclusion

Someone’s reading this! John Williams has sourced a photo, together with its caption, of Harry back in the days when he was in charge of the Cameo-Parkway label in the UK, then released via EMI’s Columbia. Many thanks, John! We … Continue reading

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A Personal History of the British Record Business 101 – Harry Walters Pt.1

Considering Harry Walters’ music business history goes way back and covers not only publishing, record companies but the BBC, he, as with Selwyn Turnbull, seems to have been largely forgotten online. One or two mentions of the Mercury Cameo-Parkway labels, … Continue reading

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A Personal History of the British Record Business 93 – Walter J. (Wally) Ridley Pt. 4.

The last episode of Wally’s long life culminated with him (almost) arriving at EMI’s HMV label, but I felt I needed to get to the bottom of his association with Peter Brough and Archie Andews, without question the most extraordinary … Continue reading

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A Personal History of the British Record Business 85a – Ron Richards

Obituary – Independent, May 2009 A modest man who did not push himself forward, Ron Richards was, nevertheless, one of the UK’s top record producers. He produced such familiar records as “Love Me Do” (the Beatles) “You’ll Never Walk Alone” … Continue reading

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A Personal History of the British Record Business 80 – Terry Oates

This wonderful sketch of Terry was drawn by Peter Dadswell. I used it once before as part of the lengthy Jeff Kruger interview, but it is only now I have discovered his name as the artist. Peter wrote an excellent appreciation … Continue reading

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A Personal History of the British Record Business 79 – Norman Newell Pt.3 and conclusion

Norman with Dorothy Squires, Roger Moore – one of you will identify the fourth character We left Norman, as with George Martin and Wally Ridley, bemoaning the fact that the producers never received any credit on the record labels or sleeves, never … Continue reading

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A Personal History of the British Record Business 51 – Jeffrey Kruger 8.

We have reached the point where Jeff was getting into his stride and wanting to use the interview to try and dispel the image he felt he may have had as a trouble-maker rather than an early independent entrepreneur. You … Continue reading

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A Personal History of the British Record Business 49 – Jeffrey Kruger 6.

Basically, we have now reached 1966, so we’ll end that last sentence in part 5 and move on! That’s how our label grew until in 1966, thanks to Len (Wood) again, I did a second rights deal with Capitol. Arising … Continue reading

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A Personal History of the British Music Business Pt. 14 – Colin Burn 6

Colin Burn (right) with Gilbert O’Sullivan and someone else! ( I am now reliably told the someone else is Jack Stewart Grayson and I’ll take an educated guess that he was the MAM label manager) Another major change in the … Continue reading

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