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Originally Posted by narcoman  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.... |
Pete was involved in some huge ones too in the 80s before SAW...Musical Youth and Nik Kershaw amongst others...and Sigue Sigue Sputnik also passed through the doors of PWL. For what it's worth, I love Sigue Sigue Sputnik's first album too!