After a couple of meetings, he said ‘I don’t know what you’re going to do but you’re so keen to do it so you better come onboard’. 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. I left and set up Radar records and wanted to take some of the bands with us, especially as you feel responsible for them. In addition to his transactional practice, Andrew also advises on derivatives regulation and related market initiatives in Europe, including benchmarks reform and IBOR transition, bespoke netting arrangements and ISDA based collateral documentation. By a stroke of luck, the label manager got fired and I decided somebody needed to do his job so I started doing it without asking.

Andrew Lauder's tale is a classic one: young and naïve country boy who came to the big city, fell into a random, entry-level but opportune position at the publishing company Southern Music, and went on to make his mark in the industry for half a century. Among the many qualities admired by us musicians who worked with Andrew was his modesty and self-effacement. I’d been at home in Hartlepool sitting there watching ‘Ready Steady Go’ and thinking ‘this is what I want’. The Clash’s bass smasher and style icon on reggae roots, punk violence, jail in Greenland and his quirky new album.We assist them in setting their prints free for future generations to access and appreciate them and their historical value. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. Of his sons, William (1739–1763) was an officer in the Honourable East India Company's Bengal Army, dying in Calcutta. Junkie, jailbird, genius: tragic JUDEE SILL loved hard, lived fast and wrote songs like no one else.

He was ahead of the game in other ways, too; pioneering a more creative way of marketing and promoting records and revolutionising the way catalogue was organised and presented. 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. To mark the anniversary, we tracked down the man who actually got the band’s signatures on a recording contract. It was a different atmosphere to a London gig, and being a football fan, I found it like a music meets football meets Northern crowd.To steal another classic line, this time from the Lovin’ Spoonful, Happy Trails might even explain ‘the magic of rock ‘n’ roll’ to a stranger. I was a bit confused at the outset of punk rock as The Stranglers didn’t quite fit in with the scene. I still get excited about new music and get packages of CDs sent out from friends still in the business so I keep up to date. Please remember it can take some time for your bank or credit card company to process and post the refund too.