nail75Ich weiß, dass My Bloody Valentine Creation Records, ein Independent Label, fast runiniert hätten und dass Allen McGhee, das Label deshalb an Sony verkauft hat.
Quelle? Laut Mike McGonigals Loveless-Buch ist das ein Mythos. Zitat Shields aus dem Buch (S. 66 f.):
Kevin Shields
One thing you should be aware of is just what the whole thing about us spending 25,000 pounds and Creation nearly going bankrupt is definitely a myth. Alan McGee thought it would be cool. He always exaggerates anyway and he always said it will do you more good than harm. […] The basic facts were that Creation left Rough Trade distribution. We started the record with Creation literally being pennyless. They weren’t bankrupt, because they didn’t in fact owe anything. When we finished the record we were no longer homeless and they had like ten bands, with half of them getting into the charts. They were an extremely healthy label. That’s the actual truth.
[…] Creation never showed us any accounts, even to this day. It’s important for people to understand that when we worked out how much we’d spent [160,000 ponds – Anm.], we realized that it was almost all our own money. Because the first record and the EPs had been made for so little money, Creation probably spent 15 to 20,000 pounds of their own money on it, and that’s it. They never showed us any accounts, and then they got bought out by Sony.
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