Polydor Studios is the subject of my latest blog.
https://willyoumeetmeonclareisland.wordpress.com/2022/01/21/the-studios-of-london-polydor-studios/
A power cut, 140 seconds on TV and two great songwriters.
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The Presidents’ Club, St Andrews’ Golf Club, Monasteries… Word In Your Ear…?
Carol From Luton reports sensational news frokm the equality frontline… She attended Heppo’s WIYE event last night and was astounded to find, in a room of a hundred or so people, no more than 4 women. Not that this stopped Cazza from enjoying the evening, but it made me wonder (having never been to one myself – the geography is against me) – are all WIYE events among the last bastions of male preserve? Or was last night’s an aberration? The way Carol described the demographic it sounded like the last gathering of the Ents, wondering where all the Entwives had gone.
As Bazza Gibb asked 50-odd years ago, ‘Where are the girls…?’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfibU–RAVg
Farewell Robert Stigwood
Farewell Robert Stigwood who died yesterday aged 81.
It was a game of two halves for Stigwood. He came from Adelaide, South Australia in 1954 to London where he worked with Joe Meek, Larry Parnes and others before forming his own production company.
Stigwood was also supposedly the man Don Arden’s heavies dangled out of a first floor window for trying to poach Arden’s band the Small Faces
The first record I’ve found with his “RS” logo was by soap star turned pop crooner John Leyton who spent 15 weeks at number one with the Joe Meek produced Johnny Remember Me
After that he managed The Graham Bond Organisation featuring Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce. This lead to Cream being signed to Stigwood’s own Reaction label with its wonderful mod-tastic label design.
He lured the Who away from Brunswick for one Reaction album (A Quick One) and a handful of singles.
At one point Stigwood managed both The Bee Gees and Cream which lead to claims of neglect from both bands.
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