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A Personal History of the British Music Business - Derek Green
Derek Green How did you start? I was dating a girl who was a receptionist at what was then called Aberbach Music, which was Julian and Jean Aberbach, subsequently sold to their cousin, Freddie Bienstock and became Carlin Music. This girl was just a little older than me and I was a tearaway with a motorbike and a leather jacket that had studs on the back of it saying Killer Green. That’s just to…
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A personal History of the British Music Scene 114 - Clive Banks
While I knew and remember Clive well from some 30 years ago, unless I stumble on one, photographs seem to be in short supply. He was a rare interviewee who was younger than me. As I am transcribing this interview now, I have put out feelers via LinkedIn in search of photographs, only to receive the shocking news that he died last year, 2025. In tribute and for those who knew him, I will move…
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Vinyl Memories 15 - random thoughts from the journalist days in Gravesend and Fleet Street
It’s taken over 25 years to decide to raid my own archives and, probably randomly, pull out items that played a significant part in my music business life. Having secured a job as a cub reporter in Gravesend’s Kent Messenger “office” (a terrace house, complete with open fireplaces, literally overlooking the station), and persuaded the wonderful Henry Cohen to allow me a weekly music column,…
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A Personal History of the British Music Business 114 - Richard Baldwyn and Music for Pleasure
Launched just over 60 years ago, Music for Pleasure, under the guidance of Richard Baldwyn for most of his working life, brought quality to the low-priced budget market which in particular brought the then innovation of musicassettes at a low price to a waiting driving nation! During a period of my 20 years at EMI, for eight of them I was put in charge of an innovation, stimulated by the then…
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Vinyl Memories 6 - Some Disc Highlights, 1967-1972
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Goodbye Bill Tarmey
Six months and no blogging….I am fickle and blown by the wind, but a little ironic that, months before the Savile revelations, the last posting was about Top of the Pops and Lime Grove. Today I am moved to write about the tiny fraction of Bill Tarmey’s life where his and my paths crossed. I had been a fan of Coronation Street since forever (well not actually forever but a long long time) and…
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A Personal History of the British Music Industry 113 - Deke Arlon P.3 , Sheena Easton and conclusion!
We’d reached the point, 1980, where Deke had formalised his management of record producer Chris Neil, and together they were looking for new singers to record. At the time, Brian Shepherd was Head of A&R at EMI and Peter Buckleigh head of marketing. One day the phone goes and Brian says: ‘We’re involved with a BBC tv series called The Big Time, about amateurs who want to be professionals. We…
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Over 100 music business interviews and more till to come!
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A Personal History of the British Record Business 111, Deke Arlon - part 1.
Deke Arlon & the Tremors .. & the Offbeats! & without The Offbeats!! This was a long and fascinating interview (I’m reading it for the first time myself!), and will be in at least three sections, so I’ll get straight into it. You will immediately realise Deke is one of relatively few early legends who crossed the boundary from musician to music business. And yes, he is still very much…
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A Personal History of the British Music Industry 110 - Olav Wyper
My wife knew Olav before me! She was working for Tony Hall in the late 1960’s when Tony was the first independent record plugger under the financial auspices of Essex Music. Much later on at EMI in the 1980’s, I paid a small fortune for the music to a hugely successful TV series, ‘The Darling Buds of May’, which Olav brought to me. Catherine Zeta-Jones enjoyed huge success; the music died a…
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A Personal History of the British Music Industry 109 - Keith Altham
There are legends behind the scenes in the British music business, many of whom I interviewed some 20+ years ago for the book I never wrote, and a growing number of those interviews have already appeared as Vinyl Memories on these pages. With the exception of Jonathan King, for reasons long forgotten(he probably requested it!), they have hitherto been confined to those no longer with us. Keith is…
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Life in the early 1900's - memories from my father, Graham Hughes (1914- 2006)
This is a one-off. Had been meaning to go through some of the paperwork I retrieved from the family home after he died, and recently came across this, which was presumably intended to be autobiography, possibly prompted by the death that year of my mother. He survived her by eleven years, so maybe after the initial experience of living on his own, other distractions made him put it to one side.…
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Two Go (not very) wild in L.A.
September 1983 Forty four years ago and EMI’s latest MD, Peter Jamieson, had recently made two changes to his corporate structure, giving me responsibility for marketing and my pal Brian Southall, whom I’d known for 15 years already when we were both in the same corridor at IPC Business Press in Fleet Street, head of press and promotion. In his infinite wisdom, Peter decided we both needed to…
Vinyl Memories 5 - from Gravesend to Fleet Street - a self indulgent, selected autobiography, with photos to make it more interestesting!
Hulton House,161-166 Fleet Street, IPC Business Press Don’t think it looks like this today, but here I was, mid April 1967, at the main entrance to IPC Business’ offices, seeking the Disc & Music Echo office, replacing I have no idea whom – I never asked and presumably was never told – nervously arriving at a room on the second floor. In the course of finding this photo, I discover it is worth…
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Vinyl Memories 4 -More of Life Before and As a Cub Reporter 1965-1967
Pirate Radio was a revelation and a revolution. All of a sudden, from scraping around the BBC Light Programme for the occasional real disc rather than a live studio performance and the first 60 seconds allowed by the sponsored Radio Luxembourg programmes late in the evenings. Oh, and there was “Salut les Copains”, a French station on long wave which introduced us to Johnny Hallyday and other…
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NOW That's What I Call a Success Story
Today’s news (Telegraph Business Section) that Sony is likely to buy the EMI share of the NOW series, a sale forced upon Universal by EC idiots, but one of the few that make sense, as Universal were the other 50% partner in the series, prompts some more “where has the time gone” memories. Thirty years ago I was Marketing Director at EMI and mid autumn 1983 took a phone call from my compatriot at…
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