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Dec 31, 2012 · Richard Havers. Image: Courtesy of Virgin Records. In the opening year of the Seventies, when most people thought of jumbos as elephants and Pendolino sounded like a character in the Merchant...
May 23, 2023 · In 1970, at the age of 20, Richard Branson founded Virgin Records. The company’s first release was “Tubular Bells” by Mike Oldfield. This song topped the charts in the UK and was the start of Virgin Records becoming a successful record label.
Sep 9, 2013 · September 9, 2013. By. Richard Havers. Virgin Records began life as a very independent-minded label in the 1970s, one with a definite sound and idiosyncratic direction. As the company...
Jun 20, 2021 · 48 years ago, Virgin Records released the album that transformed my life and kickstarted the Virgin brand. That album was Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells: A hauntingly beautiful album that still moves me to this day.
Oct 12, 2017 · Shaping the ’70s: Simon Draper and the Story of Virgin Records. Virgin Records was the most popular and avant-garde record label of the ’70s. But it wasn’t Richard Branson that signed the Human League, Can and Mike Oldfield. This is the untold story of the man who did – and changed music forever.
Feb 8, 2018 · 6 min read. ·. Feb 8, 2018. 2. Richard Branson is an English business tycoon and philanthropist who owns the Virgin Group. Starting with Virgin Records, the Virgin group has had more than 400...
Branson expressed his desire to become an entrepreneur at a young age. His first business venture, at the age of 16, was a magazine called Student. In 1970, he set up a mail-order record business. He opened a chain of record stores, Virgin Records —later known as Virgin Megastores —in 1972.
