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LIVE AND KICKING Rizzle Kicks and Olly Murs joined JLS during their recent O2 Arena residency to take part in a special daytime performance for Sport Relief. Warning: there is an almost obscene amount of youthful optimism in this photograph.


ROCKIN’ ROBBINS Crown Talent & Media’s David Quirk is taking on “26 miles of hell” (his words) and running the


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creation RECORDS Founded: 1983


Key Artists: Oasis, My Bloody Valentine (pictured below), Primal Scream


Co-formed by Alan McGee, Dick Green and Joe Foster, Creation Records was headed by McGee and reportedly run in opposition to the “manufactured” synth pop of the Eighties. The first single to be released on Creation


came from The Legend and, with early artists such as The Jesus and Mary Chain and Primal Scream, the label became a key player in the mid-Eighties indie movement. McGee approached My Bloody Valentine after a gig with his then band Biff


Bang Pow! in 1988. Valentine released EP You Made Me Realise on Creation to critical acclaim. The band’s second album Loveless, however, failed to perform commercially and is said to have nearly bankrupted Creation. McGee sold half of Creation to Sony in 1992 and went on to sign Oasis,


who would of course go on to become one of the most successful UK bands of all time. Oasis released three albums on Creation before the label’s dissolution in 1999: Definitely Maybe, (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? and Be Here Now.


Did You Know? Creation Records was revived last year for one release only - the soundtrack to Upside Down (left), a documentary on the label.


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