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A RE-SIGN FOR LIFE Celebrating one of the longest relationships in the modern music industry, Manic Street Preachers signed a new deal with Columbia Records last week. The band originally signed to the label in 1991, nearly 21 years ago and have released 10 studio albums. They are pictured with gold discs for National Treasures - their recent singles collection album - with manager Martin Hall, Columbia MD Mike Smith, and Sony Chairman and CEO Nick Gatfield.


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Among the first British owned independent record labels, Track Records was founded by The Who’s managers Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp and was originally intended as a vehicle for the band. However, Stamp is cited as saying that the arrival of Jimi Hendrix also acted as an incentive to set up Track. Although the label wasn’t quite ready to release Hendrix’ first single Hey


Joe as intended, his second single Purple Haze was Track’s first single in 1967 with Are You Experienced being the first LP. The first UK Who single to be released on Track


was Pictures Of Lily (left), which was also put out in 1967 along with The Last Time, I Can See For Miles and LP The Who Sell Out. Track continued to release Hendrix records until Polydor took over the catalogue following posthumous


album The City Of Love. The final Who album released on Track was Odds & Sods in 1974. The label ceased business operations in 1978. But was


revived in 1999 and is currently run by former Stranglers, Cult and Big Country manager Ian Grant (right). It has released records by artists including Thunderclap Newman (who also released on the label in 1970) and The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown.


Did you know? Track also distributed Apple Records release Two Virgins by John Lennon and Yoko Ono after EMI refused to handle the record because of its nude cover.


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SKY’S THE LIMIT Last Sunday, on behalf of Sony Music’s staff charity of the year Matthew’s Friends, 12 intrepid souls took to the air above Oxfordshire for a group Skydive at the London Parachute School. They had hoped to raise £6,000 for the charity, but had steamed past £10,000 at the time of writing. Back row: Steve Smith, Jason Mabbley, Ben Davies, Ellie Pamphilon, Fiona Hobbs, Sophia Patel, Dan Millar, James Weaver. Front row: Ryan Morgan, Fiona Cameron, Jenny Miskov, Alex Bains


A BUNCH OF GOOD SPORTS At the end of their evening on the phones for Sport Relief, the 62 people at PPL who gave up their time (including CEO Peter Leathem) did a bit of well- deserved celebrating – and we got a snap of ‘em. No wonder they had reason to cheer; the gang raised a whopping £28,565 for worthy causes.


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