Derek was the MD at A&M records in a period when they signed a huge number of British artists like Joan Armatrading, Police, Squeeze, Supertramp and many more. Before that however he worked for a music publisher or two and learnt the business as it was then. Here he tells us what used to happen:
Derek Green
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