Music Business

From founding Creation Records to discovering Oasis, How to Run an Indie Label offers a no-holds-barred rampage through gigs, clubs, boardrooms, drugs and booze that shows the wild spirit of the UK indie music scene.Music is like no other business. It's about being at the...

"Our attitude towards the business in the UK was 'Fuck Them All', they were all old men." Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham was the enfant terrible of Swinging Sixties London, the man who had crafted The Beatles’ antithesis. By 1965 he was a...

If there's a cultural artefact capable of withstanding the vagaries and fickleness of the digital age as well as the printed book, it's the vinyl record... In Listening to the Wind, Ian Preece sets out on an international road trip to capture the essence...

As a one-time NME journalist, former Xfm radio presenter, toilet-circuit promoter and the founder of enduring homespun British record label Fierce Panda, Simon Williams has been at the cutting, cutting, cutting edge of all things 'indie' for over thirty years.During his tenure as managing...

How would you like a six-figure marketing job at the hallowed record label that signed everyone who counts in the last fifty years of pop music? Before you answer, we'll throw in a plush office, a hip assistant and a bottomless expense account.When Dan...

The Tastemaker charts the singular life of a man who has been at the beating heart of music's most iconic moments for over sixty years. Leaving school and starting his career at Decca Records in 1958 at the age of sixteen, Tony King would soon find...

Illustrated with dozens of "lost" photos and images from the UK record shop's glorious heyday, Going for a Song chronicles the entire history of the UK record shop. Award winning author Garth Cartwright details how record shops across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland served...