I still get excited about new music and get packages of CDs sent out from friends still in the business so I keep up to date. Lauder's far-sighted recruitment of Amon Düül II and Can lit the fuse for the 'krautrock' explosion of the early 1970s (a term, incidentally, that he loathed); and Lauder effectively god-parented the pub rock boom a couple of years later. During his tenure at various music companies in the UK Lauder released key albums from Elvis Costello, the Stranglers, Buzzcocks, Hawkwind, Can, Neu! I’d got to know Lemmy pretty well because he used to come in and hang out in the office when Hawkwind weren’t on the road or in the studio.

Andrew Lauder is one of British record business’s most significant and highly influential figures but outside the music industry few people will probably know his name. The Clash’s bass smasher and style icon on reggae roots, punk violence, jail in Greenland and his quirky new album.Without Lemmy, Hawkwind was less of a rock ’n’ roll band and I know some of my enthusiasm for the band left with him. A much published author, his latest book An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock was released in July 2023.

If you’re interested in going behind the music and seeing how it gets (or doesn’t get) to the public, this is a good start. Also, the interest from Europe was amazing, probably because The Stranglers were quite musical, people that couldn’t relate to the other bands, could relate to The Stranglers.My first job with Liberty was radio promotion, getting records played on the radio and it coincided with the beginning of Radio 1 in September 1967. It was all relentlessly new then, there was something going on and you couldn’t help but be interested in it. You signed the Buzzcocks and 999 to UA as well, were there any other bands in the ‘punk’ movement that eluded you?

During the later ’60s and throughout the ’70s in particular (working at the legendary United Artists), he had a knack of being one step ahead of the next trend.Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. So I went down and it was just me there, which I didn’t really like doing as I felt a bit self conscious. After deciding I wanted to get into the renewable industry, I could see the RED MSc was one of the best out there. If you love what we do, you can help tQ to continue bringing you the best in cultural criticism and new music by joining one of our subscription tiers. I was offered a job at Apple at the same time but the head of the American Liberty company said ‘you’re not going anywhere’ which I took as a compliment.