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Sigue Sigue Sputnik were an ACE band. I loved them !! Yup they got a £4million advance - although they never got the full amount.... from EMI actually. But Tony James & Martin Degville were/are very very clever men and they made their label a LOT of money. T shirts see!! I became familiar with EMIs investments in 1995.... they used to be a very good label for splashing the cash!! How times change....
Love Missile F1-11 has made a LOT of money in licenses alone over the last 20 somthing years...... Fab record.
Tony James had his connections from Generation X - legends themselves having sparked up Billy Idols career..... Great band, great story but very much from a bygone era. The industry works VERY differently now !
Stock, Aitken & Waterman. HA..... They made a lot of money from crap !! I know Matt Aitken well and I think he'd be the first to admit this !! Pete Waterman, of course, A&R'd some big records in the '70s....
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