Yet another awards show, I think now everyone has one at least something. Congratulations to Taylor Swift who quite frankly has has an astonishing year,can’t quite work why she chose to be in London, surely someone had an idea that it was going to be her year. Especially when all the people who voted for [...]
Archive for the ‘Life’ Category
On November - 23 - 2009
On March - 18 - 2009
I’ve been buried in my writings but I haven’t forgot my blog. Just thought I wouldn’t add daily but then again I might change my mind. Part of what I’m writing is on interpersonal skills which we should all have but some have better than others. I’ll probably include some in this book which is [...]
On January - 20 - 2009
So today it all begins. Much as I am delighted to see Obama take the helm it’s just as exciting to see George Bush going. I’ll never understand how he got re elected though, one mistake you can condone but to ask him to come back and do it all over again is a little [...]
On December - 22 - 2008
If you’re still running around frantically looking for a last minute Christmas present and you’re a fan of The Boss then I suggest you go check out www.foryoubruce.com where there is a great new book out. After my last blog I got a comment about Bruce being the reigning king which prompted me to go [...]
On December - 16 - 2008
Barry was remote and feeling isolated at public school, not only was he picking up a formal education, he was being formally educated in music. John Peel introduced him to a whole new world and one that would evolve in to a career. Such was the effect Peel had on him that later on he [...]
On November - 26 - 2008
I just received a call from Neil with the very sad news that one of our former Island colleagues, Rob Partridge had passed away. Rob was one of the finest human beings ever to have graced the music industry and an engine room giant, yet his greatest quality was that he was an ‘all round [...]
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On November - 24 - 2008
It was starting to get late, I looked at the car clock and it was 4-30pm. I was supposed to be at The Britannia Hotel in 10 minutes to pick up my band and I was still 30 minutes away, better call them. I reached in to my inside pocket for my mobile phone. SHIT! [...]
On November - 17 - 2008
Factory Records started life at 86 Palatine Road in the Manchester surburb of West Didsbury. They set up shop in the second floor flat of co founder Alan Erasmus where they remained for the best part of the next decade. They had a vision, they wanted to put out good records. It was vision much [...]
On November - 13 - 2008
I started working at Island Records in 1978, after spending the previous four years selling records out of the back of a van for Transatlantic and laterally ABC Records. They were a glorious four years and worthy of their own blog so I will waste no further time here, suffice to say many friends were [...]
On November - 3 - 2008
Well it looks like I got my daughter’s birth date wrong but I got all confused with my dates in the previous bog. I do know Jessica was born on 9th August 1982 so that makes the Gateshead, U2 and The Police gig the end of July and 82 not 83. That year, 1982 from [...]
