Creation Records hardly needs an introduction, right? Joe Foster, Alan McGee and Dick Green founded this little indie label on a shoestring budget and promptly released a record that has been called "the worst record of all time" on more than one occasion (The Legend!, a band featuring famous music journo Everett True). From this rather inauspicious beginning came one of the most successful labels in indie music history. Sure, they're not around any more, but that's largely because of a deal with major label Sony. These kinds of deals sometimes spell disaster for indie labels, but they never happen unless the indie has managed to sell a really impressive number of records. Sony might have sucked a bit of the magic out of Creation, but early Creation Records still gets the hearts of indie label junkies all aflutter. Plus, all the budding record label bosses out there can learn a lot from their story.
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