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Dec 12, 2013 · Ringleader among them was Ivo Watts-Russell, scion of faded aristocracy who co-founded the label in 1979 (its original name was Axis, after Jimi Hendrix) and steered it through the 80s and into...
May 7, 2015 · 4AD began, in 1980, in one of the London offices of the small Beggars Banquet record retail chain, by two of the staff, Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent. The latter says that demos were arriving en masse in the wake of Tubeway Army’s number one success on Beggar’s own independent label.
4AD is a British record label owned by Beggars Group. It was founded in London under the name Axis Records by Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent in 1980 as an imprint of Beggars Banquet Records . [1] [2] The name was changed to 4AD after the release of the label's first four singles.
Sep 26, 2013 · Just a handful of the bands and artists who started out recording for 4AD, a record label founded by Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent in 1979, a label which went on to be one of the most influential of the modern era.
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Feb 11, 2014 · Martin Aston poses this question near the beginning of Facing the Other Way, his detailed, blow-by-blow account of the independent record label 4AD (originally named Axis), started in 1979.
Jun 19, 2013 · Ivo Watts-Russell’s legendary independent record label 4AD — home in the ’80s and ’90s to the Pixies, Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil, Throwing Muses and so many more — will be the subject an exhaustive history this fall with the publication of journalist Martin Aston’s new book “Facing the Other Way: The Story of 4AD.”
Just a handful of the bands and artists who started out recording for 4AD, a record label founded by Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent in 1979, a label which went on to be one of the most influential of the modern era.
