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By 2002 he was living in Knowstone, Devon, where he ran Acadia and Evangeline (not to be confused with the US Evangeline Records label) releasing albums by Ronnie Lane, Spirit, Gov't Mule, Loudon Wainwright III and The Steepwater Band and employed local schoolgirl Joss Stone on work experience. Thinking back to my time in the early to mid Sixties around Denmark Street, which was a very small area but was incredibly important in the whole scene at the time.
He has co-written autobiographies by Eddie and Brian Holland, New York Doll Sylvain Sylvain and Walter Lure of Johnny Thunder’s Heartbreakers. I had an office which we painted up like a Western saloon and it had a fan to suck all the marijuana fumes out. All our press photos are LIMITED ARCHIVE ORIGINALS - they are the actual prints that were used by the newspapers, they are not reprints or digital prints produced by us. Prince Charles had already included Sir Andrew in his land-tax levies, for which he personally signed Sir Andrew's receipt, dated 29 September 1745.Soon after the band had achieved commercial success in early ‘77, you left UA to pursue other projects. Please remember it can take some time for your bank or credit card company to process and post the refund too. I’d already put Lemmy in touch with American artist Joe Petagno who’d done artwork for Dr Feelgoods’ Malpractice and Joe came up with the first version of the now familiar skull logo.
To mark the anniversary, we tracked down the man who actually got the band’s signatures on a recording contract. My first job with Liberty was radio promotion, getting records played on the radio and it coincided with the beginning of Radio 1 in September 1967.Andrew is ranked as a leading lawyer for Derivatives and Structured Products in Legal 500 with clients describing him as “very knowledgeable in the derivative space”. On the day I arrived I found myself in Denmark Street, where I was picked up like a chess piece and placed in the offices of a leading music publisher. I left and set up Radar records and wanted to take some of the bands with us, especially as you feel responsible for them. Lauder commissioned a number of notable artists, including Barney Bubbles, Rick Griffin and Hapshash and the Coloured Coat and used a wide variety of promotional techniques: coloured vinyl, elaborate album covers, limited edition budget albums and charity concerts. It was Lauder who brought the Stranglers, the Buzzcocks and 999 to UA as punk began to break; Lauder, now at Radar Records, who was there as Elvis Costello commenced and continued his meteoric rise; Lauder who launched the Edsel reissues label onto the world; Lauder who shepherded the first Stone Roses album to greatness.
Death, drugs, disease, demons, deportation, dashed romance, and, for this man of the eastern US, unlikely sanctuary in the north of England: “My story is pretty warty,” he warns MARTIN ASTON. In hindsight it’s easy to identify the changing eras in music but underground music, pub rock and punk in Britain, for example, evolved quite seamlessly and it was visionaries like Andrew who, instinctively, saw what was coming and helped bring about those transitions. I knew Dai (Davies, half of Albion with Derek Savage) through Brinsley Schwarz, although I met him first when he was doing PR. Lauder was co-founder of the labels Radar, F-Beat, Demon and Silvertone; this came after a decade in United Artists corporate trenches backing such unlikely nags as Can, Hawkwind, Dr Feelgood, and The Stranglers, as well as fading memories like the Groundhogs and Man.To celebrate Fu Manchu’s 30th anniversary — working with At the Dojo Records — the band has released many of their impossible-to-find albums on some amazing colored vinyl. Andrew Lauder is one of British record business's most significant and highly influential figures but outside the music industry few people will probably know his name.
Without making a fuss, without bothering - unlike so many -- about raising his own public profile, he applied his knowledge and enthusiasm to the business of identifying interesting musicians and helping them to reach an audience. Radar took on several Stiff Records acts, including Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello and the Attractions and Yachts. My short stint in Orkney has not only given me a great qualification and contacts, more importantly it has given me lifelong friends. Other people signed the checks, other people did the contracts; all he had to do was nurture the bands he loved. It was Lauder who created the environment within which Hawkwind could rise from the dishevelled jam band he signed in 1969, to become one of the most inventive acts of the early seventies.Of his sons, William (1739–1763) was an officer in the Honourable East India Company's Bengal Army, dying in Calcutta.
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