The Creation Records Story: My Magpie Eyes are Hungry for the Prize

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Spends much of its length discussing the lesser-known (and infinitely more interesting) early years of the label (The Loft for the win! 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. The story of indie, told through the prism of Creation Records, gathered from many interviews with the musicians, scenesters, journalists and fans who were there on the way through.

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