IBC Studios is the subject of this week’s SECOND blog. Yes, Friday double bubble is the best kind.
https://willyoumeetmeonclareisland.wordpress.com/2022/02/18/the-studios-of-london-ibc-studios/
The Kinks, The Easybeats, The Who, a very expensive legal settlement and one of the greatest producers who ever lived.
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Two in a week – you’re spoiling us Monsieur B
I’m going to try a few weeks of it, just to hurry things along.
^Dude’s the Pevsner of studios. Keep it up feller.
Brilliant stuff. Thanks.
I know I am going to regret asking, but when they were recording in the 30s for broadcast from Europe, how did they get it there? Acetates?
@paulwright I’m pretty sure the ‘carrier’ was acetates but this is a great article about pre-war radio.
http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/14739/1/Pre-War_Commercial_Radio_and_the_BBC.pdf
Thanks.
And a comment rather than a question (ahhh!). Its odd how the producer and the manager fall out and it is the band that has to pay off the producer, not the manager.
How many other bands are in similar situations?
Actually, it has just given me an idea for your follow up series – Courts where famous music litigation took place.
Only kidding.
Artists can sack their managers if they don’t like the decisions they’re making, dependent on what kind of contract they have with their manager.
Presumably, the Who didn’t disagree with their manager’s decision to break the contract with Talmy and signed the agreement to pay him that 5% royalty.
That’s it, @Mike_H but it also highlights the fundamental truth about the music business back then.
All bands are stupid.
Contracts, legal agreements, etc. None of them understood them because they’d never had to. Kit Lambert was an impulsive drug addict – a dangerous combination. Plus, Townshend thought the sun shone out of Kit’s rear entrance. If Kit said ‘sign’ I doubt whether Pete would have queried it. Besides, 5% doesn’t sound too much, does it?
To be fair to Pete, he became very savvy about publishing rights, something that he advised Ronnie Lane to do eg. one last Faces album. Unfortunately Ronnie self admittedly failed to take his advice on that account.
There’s the famous incident, which I believe was instigated by their manager Tony Secunda, with The Move and the promotional postcard that implied, if I recall correctly, that Harold Wilson was knobbing his secretary. They ended up forfeiting all the royalties to ‘Flowers In The Rain.’
I think that Private Eye and probably others said that Wilson did have a very brief affair with Marcia Williams – later Lady Falkender of the Lavender List – his secretary.
All the times I queued up two doors down for the Chinese embassy, and I never knew.
There must be enough chapters for a book now, aren’t there?
Still 40 or so studios to do 😳. I’ve also had conflicting information about approaching a publisher. Either, wait until it’s finished, or send in what I’ve got. The downside of option 2 is that finishing it could take another 9 months, and publishers might ‘want it now.’ Paolo Hewitt also advised that option 2 gives a publisher the option of stealing the idea, approaching someone like Paolo, and getting him to knock it together in 6 months. He did wink at me when he said it, mind.
All advice gratefully received.