It helped because it was Dai and he knew everybody in the company so it was quick and all pretty painless. The publisher continues that “Andrew Lauder is one of the British record business’s most significant and highly influential figures but outside the music industry few people will probably know his name.

Andrew is a derivatives and structured finance specialist, with a particular focus on TRS and repo linked funding structures, synthetic securitisations, CLOs and bespoke repackaging transactions. Lauder largely ignored the pop market, although the label had a few UK hit singles such as Creedence Clearwater Revival's " Proud Mary". In fact, to read Happy Trails you would almost think that releasing records by Creedence Clearwater Revival or Elvis Costello or U2 is as perfunctory a vocation as that of any given working stiff.I used to wake up the next day after Groundhogs’ gigs with a ringing in my ears but it would fade away during the day. Lauder brought the Flamin' Groovies to Britain even though they had been turned down by United Artists in the US. The value of original Press Photos prints has been steadily increasing in value and is expected to to continue doing so.

That is the heart of this book - how a barely-out-of-his teens young man who had drifted around the music biz for a couple of years in the mid-late sixties suddenly found himself effectively running the rock side first of Liberty Records’ UK division, and then United Artists. Soon after the band had achieved commercial success in early ‘77, you left UA to pursue other projects.My friend told me about it and I rang up the guy and said ‘I’d love to work for a record company, I’ll do anything’. On the Liberty sampler Gutbucket (1969) Lauder placed The Bonzo's spoof 'Can Blue Men Sing The Whites' directly after Tony McPhee's 'No More Doggin'. Dave Thompson is a contributing editor at Goldmine , contributing the Spin Cycle vinyl and reissues column and more besides. Yes, I kept going to see them but every time turned out to be a disaster, the equipment broke down or the PA was shit. 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.