Here's a brief insight into the world of Andrew Lauder, the record company executive, who when with United Artists signed The Stranglers, and along with the acquisition of Buzzcocks, made UA one of the big league independent labels behind punk.
This piece comes from the time when, having left United Artists, he was setting up Radar Records that really got behind Elvis Costello & The Attractions.
I found it interesting what he said of the punk scene as it existed in early 1978.
"In 1977," he theorises, "a new generation of kids discovered rock 'n' roll for the first time. This year many of them will learn how to play it and those who've already learned to play it are now learning how to write it".
He hit the nail on the head with that opinion I thought. Those bands that had survived the madness of punk could within 18 months play their instruments and were therefore free to produce some very exiting and totally diverse material... the reason why 1979 can be considered to be the best year for British misic ever!
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