He also has significant experience advising banks and sponsors on the hedging aspects of financings (infrastructure and leveraged finance), including deal contingent hedging, as well as workouts of derivatives portfolios in distressed scenarios.

Family harmonisers from the Deep South, they sang for Superman, played with Lightnin’ Hopkins and met electric Dylan at Newport. Lauder was born in Hartlepool, County Durham, England in 1948, the son of a timber yard owner, he attended Wellingborough School, Northamptonshire. At the same time that I became the label manager at Liberty, Transamerica Corporation in the States had bought both United Artists and Liberty. By a stroke of luck, the label manager got fired and I decided somebody needed to do his job so I started doing it without asking. Also, the interest from Europe was amazing, probably because The Stranglers were quite musical, people that couldn’t relate to the other bands, could relate to The Stranglers.In hindsight it’s easy to identify the changing eras in music but underground music, pub rock and punk in Britain, for example, evolved quite seamlessly and it was visionaries like Andrew who, instinctively, saw what was coming and helped bring about those transitions.

A much published author, his latest book An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock was released in July 2023.

Cheer up, Brian Christinzio – it’s already happened, and, as BC CAMPLIGHT, you’ve likely written a song about it. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. As well as the unparalleled joy of keeping the publication alive, you'll receive benefits including exclusive editorial, podcasts, and specially-commissioned music by some of our favourite artists.

If you’re interested in going behind the music and seeing how it gets (or doesn’t get) to the public, this is a good start. Titled in tribute to the author’s favourite album, by quintessential Californian psychedelic group Quicksilver Messenger Service, Happy Trails boasts a cosmic jacket to match and a subtitle that tips you a wink. I’d got to know Lemmy pretty well because he used to come in and hang out in the office when Hawkwind weren’t on the road or in the studio. A career dating back to the mid-1960s, with Jimi Hendrix, Hawkwind and the Stone Roses enjoying various prominence among dozens of other names, ensures a healthy appreciation for excess prevails – but ultimately, this is a book about the music business that mainly strives to discuss music and business. By 2002 he was living in Knowstone, Devon, where he ran Acadia and Evangeline (not to be confused with the US Evangeline Records label) releasing albums by Ronnie Lane, Spirit, Gov't Mule, Loudon Wainwright III and The Steepwater Band and employed local schoolgirl Joss Stone on work experience.I used to wake up the next day after Groundhogs’ gigs with a ringing in my ears but it would fade away during the day. Lauder's personal music preferences were West Coast hippy bands such as Quicksilver Messenger Service and the Grateful Dead, [1] which was reflected in his signing bands like Man and Help Yourself; but Lauder became known for releasing an extremely diverse range of bands; from Krautrock:- Can, Amon Düül II and Neu! Starting life in Tin Pan Alley (as did Elton John), he has gone on to work with some of the best bands in the business (Man, Hawkwind, Stranglers, Elvis Costello , Buzzcocks, Stone Roses, and more).

The publisher continues that “Andrew Lauder is one of the British record business’s most significant and highly influential figures but outside the music industry few people will probably know his name. During Lauder's tenure at Liberty Records (based in Mortimer Street, London) he organised the Liberty Records Football team made up of various young industry luminaries and occasional guests who played regular friendly matches at Colliers Wood, South London. While I was still at Southern, me and another guy ended up managing a group and getting them a record contract. Death, drugs, disease, demons, deportation, dashed romance, and, for this man of the eastern US, unlikely sanctuary in the north of England: “My story is pretty warty,” he warns MARTIN ASTON.He’d been in the Four Pennies – just about the antithesis of Motorhead – and was now an engineer/producer at Rockfield. Next thing he’d brought in a new bass player and drummer in what would become the classic Motorhead line-up with Eddie Clarke on guitar and Phil Taylor on drums.