Happy Trails: Andrew Lauder's Charmed Life and High Times in the Record Business

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Press photos have been available to the public for just a few years, and similar to baseball cards, they have attracted investors and collectors. Since the photos are old press photographs they may have scratches, lines, or other wears of time, which just underlines the authenticity and age of the photos. He’s always retained a fan’s perspective which, combined with an exceptional knowledge of music, meant he was at ease around musicians and never happier than spending time with them. To celebrate Fu Manchu’s 30th anniversary — working with At the Dojo Records — the band has released many of their impossible-to-find albums on some amazing colored vinyl.

A much published author, his latest book An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock was released in July 2023. Lauder was co-founder of the labels Radar, F-Beat, Demon and Silvertone; this came after a decade in United Artists corporate trenches backing such unlikely nags as Can, Hawkwind, Dr Feelgood, and The Stranglers, as well as fading memories like the Groundhogs and Man. The publisher continues that “Andrew Lauder is one of the British record business’s most significant and highly influential figures but outside the music industry few people will probably know his name. After a while, the American guy said ‘you’re doing such a good job as label manager that you might as well do it’.Among the many qualities admired by us musicians who worked with Andrew was his modesty and self-effacement. Firstly there isn’t much mention of new technology and its effect on his business and our listening, almost like vinyl was never challenged by any other format.

That, of course, coincides with most potential readers’ own hopes for the book — that brief period in time when it was possible to have a favorite record company, as well as a favorite band. With our high quality and fast digitizing process, we help newspaper archives in converting their physical prints into digital format. Shindig Happy Trails gives the reader a window into a charmed life that most of us can only dream of.I’d got to know Lemmy pretty well because he used to come in and hang out in the office when Hawkwind weren’t on the road or in the studio. Also, the interest from Europe was amazing, probably because The Stranglers were quite musical, people that couldn’t relate to the other bands, could relate to The Stranglers.

To be honest, as a man in his sixties, I wasn't terribly interested in the later stuff, and younger readers (if there are any) may not find the early stories to their taste, but that is a testament to Andrew's lonegevity. LOU REED KNEW THAT BERLIN ’S CINEMATIC PORTRAIT OF FUCKED-UP LOVERS MIRED IN DRUGS AND VIOLENCE WOULD CHALLENGE FANS OF HIS CAREERMAKING TRANSFORMER.Whenever I could afford it, I would go to the Flamingo or the Marquee or the 100 Club and I’d see my favourite groups like The Yardbirds or the Pretty Things. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. On the off chance, I went in and said ‘I’m looking for a job’ and the guy replied ‘how did you know there was one?

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. If you love what we do, you can help tQ to continue bringing you the best in cultural criticism and new music by joining one of our subscription tiers. I used to wake up the next day after Groundhogs’ gigs with a ringing in my ears but it would fade away during the day. Initially focusing on indie bands such as The Stone Roses, [10] he expanded their roster to include Peter "Sonic Boom" Kember [11] John Lee Hooker, J.The Stranglers’ debut album Rattus Norvegicus was unleashed on the public 35 years ago in April 1977. At that point I knew the album we had was definitely a dead duck because two thirds of the recordings weren’t good enough and it was a different band anyway, so even Dave Edmunds’ tracks were now redundant.