Happy Trails: Andrew Lauder's Charmed Life and High Times in the Record Business

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I used to speak to John Peel and his producer who were the only people that I could really talk about music to. To steal another classic line, this time from the Lovin’ Spoonful, Happy Trails might even explain ‘the magic of rock ‘n’ roll’ to a stranger. Shindig Happy Trails gives the reader a window into a charmed life that most of us can only dream of.

Lemmy said later that it wasn’t down to Motorhead’s excessive behaviour or the long hours but because Dave was really stressed out. That’s rather a sad end to the book, which detracts somewhat from the splendid ground breaking earlier days . Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. Of his sons, William (1739–1763) was an officer in the Honourable East India Company's Bengal Army, dying in Calcutta.Andrew is ranked as a leading lawyer for Derivatives and Structured Products in Legal 500 with clients describing him as “very knowledgeable in the derivative space”. Please remember it can take some time for your bank or credit card company to process and post the refund too. After a couple of meetings, he said ‘I don’t know what you’re going to do but you’re so keen to do it so you better come onboard’. 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. He’d just done a solo deal with Swan Song – Led Zeppelin’s label – and Peter Grant was pressuring him to get his own stuff together.

Its songs about abortion and activism, bad love and loneliness, have driven him to painful places - but, as he tells GRAYSON HAVER CƯRRIN, that’s where the real stories are: “What’s the point of all this if you’re not terrified? He's always retained a fan's perspective which, combined with an exceptional knowledge of music, meant he was at ease around musicians and never happier than spending time with them. I’ve really come to appreciate my time in the music business by stepping outside of it and moving to the South of France. I knew Nick Kent (music journalist who was attacked by Sid Vicious) who was beaten up by a Sex Pistol and I thought ‘he’s a harmless drug-addict music-fan, leave him alone’. Lauder was briefly with Island Records, signing U2 in March 1980 and offering Buzzcocks frontman Pete Shelley a solo record deal.

Happy Trails: Andrew Lauder's Charmed Life and High Times in the Record Business (ISBN 147462359X), a memoir co-written by Lauder and Mick Houghton, was released in 2023. Lauder commissioned a number of notable artists, including Barney Bubbles, Rick Griffin and Hapshash and the Coloured Coat and used a wide variety of promotional techniques: coloured vinyl, elaborate album covers, limited edition budget albums and charity concerts.

The gatekeepers’ willingness to allow him entry, to say nothing of the cost of renting a flat, underlines that such youthful opportunism is an impossible dream in the straitened industry of 2023. Lauder brought the Flamin' Groovies to Britain even though they had been turned down by United Artists in the US. He became known for setting up Brassneck Publicity in 1980, one of the most successful independent PR companies over the next 30 years. KEEP READING: ‘ Cathi Unsworth’s history of goth is explored through the influential bands, music, and the sociopolitical backdrops that shaped this outsider subculture in her book, Season Of The Witch.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.