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Re: Rumour

jacko (jacko99@my-deja.com) won a Nobel Prize for literature by writing:


> In article <8dj081$viv$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
>   James C. <james_ccj@my-deja.com> wrote:
> > In article <sk6L4.538$TI6.372231@news0.optus.net.au>,
> >   dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage) wrote:
> > >
> > > And back in 1973 a bloke named Branson started a record company.....
> > >
> > He wasn't always lucky until his company produce one of the first
> >Phill Collins albumn which earn them millions of punds. .....

> I’m happy to be corrected but IIRC his first big recording win was not
> with Phil Collins but with Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells.

Branson borrowed money to buy second hand recording equipment, signed an
unknown London composer named Mike Oldfield and recorded Tubular Bells in
1972 for release in 1973. He formed a new company called Virgin Records to
distribute it.

Another educated gamble on Branson's part was signing the Sex Pistols.

Cheers
David