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

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It immediately attacked the right-hand side of my face, on the eye with a fair bit of force, and drew some blood. The Oasis bits aside - they're as tiresome to read about as they are to look at or listen to - this is a fitting overview of a label that played a significant role in defining the independent music scene in the UK from the 1980s onwards. Alan McGee cuts a rather puerile and pathetic figure by comparison, a Thatcherite narcissist driven by resentment and "ambition", like the unlovable Jesus and Mary Chain who he spent much of the early 1980s trying to start his "revolution" with. Ever prone to short-sighted outbursts of hubris, McGee has already denounced My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry for the Prize as "the accountant's tale", presumably because it represents him in an inconveniently candid light.

To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. Fast forward to now and my other half picked me up a second hand copy and it’s drawn me in all over again, with the added bonus I can now jump onto Spotify and listen much more easily to the songs and band mentioned as I’m reading.

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Cavanagh distinguishes himself from Simon Reynolds and Jon Savage by concentrating on the mechanics of the music industry, rather than employing the dubious technique of trying to infer wider social meaning from musical trends. The Creation Records Story: My Magpie Eyes are Hungry for the Prize was origi- nally published to wide critical-acclaim in 2001. Your Message Please notify me when David Cavanagh - The Creation Records Story: My Magpie Eyes are Hungry for the Prize becomes available - https://worldofechomusic.

how Creation Records suddenly pulled-out its funding for their North American tour which the band paid for themselves (albeit in a much smaller/fewer city tour- where they were absolutely amazing in case you missed it) this book was still fascinating esp.