I've been away for a week so I missed this last Saturday - but just heard an advert for the series on Radio 2.
Paul Morley has made a 4 part documentary on the history of record labels - there was a Smith track used in the advert (This Charming Man, I think) and Geoff Travis features:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/documentaries/fromedisontoitunes.shtml
Dave
Paul Morley has made a 4 part documentary on the history of record labels - there was a Smith track used in the advert (This Charming Man, I think) and Geoff Travis features:
From Edison To iTunes
Critic, writer and one-time label boss, Paul Morley charts the rise and rise of the record labels and looks ahead to a more uncertain future. This is a music lover's portrait of the music industry, told through the many iconic and generation defining record labels that helped mould it.
Drawing on new interviews with leading record men from the past six decades, Paul Morley shows how record labels emerged in the late 19th century and developed across the next 130 years, placing the vision and passion of the label-creators in the context of the technological, social, economic and even political developments that surrounded them.
Critic, writer and one-time label boss, Paul Morley charts the rise and rise of the record labels and looks ahead to a more uncertain future. This is a music lover's portrait of the music industry, told through the many iconic and generation defining record labels that helped mould it.
Drawing on new interviews with leading record men from the past six decades, Paul Morley shows how record labels emerged in the late 19th century and developed across the next 130 years, placing the vision and passion of the label-creators in the context of the technological, social, economic and even political developments that surrounded them.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/documentaries/fromedisontoitunes.shtml
Dave
