The Creation Records Story: My Magpie Eyes are Hungry for the Prize

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The Creation Records Story: My Magpie Eyes are Hungry for the Prize

The Creation Records Story: My Magpie Eyes are Hungry for the Prize

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With the doctors concerned by the extent of his injuries, he was flown to the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, where he underwent surgery for two hours. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. James Glindemann, 68, said he was about to tuck into a Chinese takeaway lunch on Tuesday at an outdoor mall in Sale, about 200km east of Melbourne, when he was suddenly and viciously swooped by a magpie. Last year a Sydney council was forced to defend its decision to shoot a swooping magpie, which it said was “not taken lightly”. Birdlife Australia’s Sean Dooley argued magpies could recognise individual faces and “tend to swoop the people they see as a threat”.

I often find myself being so deep in thought that I'm not really listening to what my children are saying to me and I extrapolated guilty feelings over that into the story of someone who for a combination of personal ambition and commuter journey time ends up missing out on his kids growing up and not really knowing them or the 'Herberts' they might be hanging out with. Cavanagh’s book remains the definitive statement on British independent music in the late 20th century. It's incredibly comprehensive, including a wealth of behind the scenes material and colorful anectdotes. Falls into the ranks of tracks like “Dance” by ESG, “Eisbaer” by Grauzone, “Damaged Goods” by Gang of Four or like the album description says Kleenex.

He threatened to beat up the concierge in his hotel when the plastic door-key to his room didn't work (until he realised he was on the wrong floor). David Cavanagh’s 2000 biography ‘The Creation Records Story: My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry For The Prize’ is widely regarded as one of the best music books in existence, telling the inside story of Alan McGee’s famous independent label Creation via interviews with musicians, ex-employees and a fair few detractors! May have some underlining and highlighting of text and some writing in the margins, but there are no missing pages or anything else that would compromise the readability or legibility of the text. Second time round and it's a much better read: McGee is still an awful awful man, and a McGee wired on coke is ten times worse, but the benefits of hindsight make you realise he was much sharper than he's given credit for in terms of understanding where the music industry was going. But magpies also have their defenders, including some of the people who spoke to the Guardian for an episode of the Full Story podcast this month.

In 1999, however, McGee announced his shock departure as his label's influence over a generation of British music came to a confusing and disappointing end.

An exhaustive, incredible telling of the history of Creation Records (and through it, much of the British indie scene). What started as a “one-way conversation” with a magpie has ended with a Victorian man airlifted to hospital with serious injuries to both his eyes.



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