It is a long long book and the obsessive details about the Jesus and Mary Chain, Ride, Primal Scream and My Bloody Valentine might be a bit much for some. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Founded by Alan McGee in 1983, Creation Records achieved notoriety as the home of Primal Scream, the Jesus and Mary Chain and other anti-Establish- ment acts. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit. Buttons are cool machine washable, but please bear in mind that they will be breakable when dropped. how Creation Records suddenly pulled-out its funding for their North American tour which the band paid for themselves (albeit in a much smaller/fewer city tour- where they were absolutely amazing in case you missed it) this book was still fascinating esp.Second time round and it's a much better read: McGee is still an awful awful man, and a McGee wired on coke is ten times worse, but the benefits of hindsight make you realise he was much sharper than he's given credit for in terms of understanding where the music industry was going.

It's incredibly comprehensive, including a wealth of behind the scenes material and colorful anectdotes. With classics such as Ted Hughes's The Iron Man and award-winners including Emma Carroll's Letters from the Lighthouse, Faber Children's Books brings you the best in picture books, young reads and classics.Cavanagh reveals internal politicking worthy of Millbank, painting the sober McGee as gentler but no less paranoid, an increasingly distant figure, ill-at-ease with the market-led impulses of the new quasi-corporate company, although perfectly happy to accept the accompanying financial benefits.

Cavanagh explores how those early punk experiments in DIY music production (early Postcard, but the author includes several other labels) ultimately fell victim to the punk ethic itself, and then (in 1983) the unholy alliance of Geoff Travis, Mike Alway and Warners' Rob Dickens. not quite a juicy as i might have wanted, but with its scope being as wide as 'Creation Records' and Alan Mcgee, there's too much history to cover to get too detailed.Andy Strickland formed the Caretaker Race, whose singles and sole album are acclaimed to this day, whilst Bill Black (aka Prince) formed The Wishing Stones, whose singles and sadly unreleased ahead-of-it's-time album were the foundation of the Heavenly label. Tension leading to an acrimonious, spectacular and pyrotechnic ONSTAGE breakup was to put the kibosh on all this; Pete Astor and Dave Morgan were to go on to form another Creation act, The Weather Prophets, which similarly flirted with success. May have some underlining and highlighting of text and some writing in the margins, but there are no missing pages or anything else that would compromise the readability or legibility of the text. The book tells the story of flamboyant company founder Alan McGee and the many great bands that recorded for the label, such as the Jesus and Mary Chain, the House of Love, My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Primal Scream and Oasis.