The Creation Records Story: My Magpie Eyes are Hungry for the Prize

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Founded by Alan McGee in 1983, Creation Records achieved notoriety as the home of Primal Scream, the Jesus and Mary Chain and other anti-Establishment acts. A lesser author would have slavishly documented each and every act in writing *The* Creation Records Story.

The story of indie, told through the prism of Creation Records, gathered from many interviews with the musicians, scenesters, journalists and fans who were there on the way through. In 1999, however, McGee announced his shock departure as his label’s influence over a generation of British music came to a confusing and disappointing end. They would have also fit in on the Postcard label out of Scotland as well (Aztec Camera, Orange Juice, Josef K, the Go Betweens, etc)! Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit.It immediately attacked the right-hand side of my face, on the eye with a fair bit of force, and drew some blood. Most obvious of these was the souring of Creation's always problematic relationship with its prized asset Oasis, but the book's gestation also coincided with the British music industry's slide into recession and McGee's disillusionment with what his company - and by definition he himself - had become. The definitive story of the trials and tribulations, meteoric rise and eventual demise of the UK's most successful and influential record label of the 1990's. It's packed with anecdote - who knew that the House of Love's Guy Chadwick had a thing for getting naked at parties? An exhaustive, incredible telling of the history of Creation Records (and through it, much of the British indie scene).

Tension leading to an acrimonious, spectacular and pyrotechnic ONSTAGE breakup was to put the kibosh on all this; Pete Astor and Dave Morgan were to go on to form another Creation act, The Weather Prophets, which similarly flirted with success. Cavanagh’s book remains the definitive statement on British independent music in the late 20th century.Home to William Golding, Sylvia Plath, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sally Rooney, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Max Porter, Ingrid Persaud, Anna Burns and Rachel Cusk, among many others, Faber is proud to publish some of the greatest novelists from the early twentieth century to today.