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Brewer

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Posted: April 24 2003, 20:14

There was an article in the Radio Times "Easter Week 19-25th April" by Hugh Costello about Leanardo Da Vinci. At the end of the article he listed a few ppl who could qualify for Renaissance Man/Woman in Uk today. He listed RB and to quote "fresh-faced entrepreneur who inflicted MO's TB on us, boosting profilts of his own record label, vigin"

To my reckoning RB was a wide boy just a head of the creditors and was just tryin to keep all the balls in the air before the arrival of TB. It was TB and HR and Ommadawn that gave him the financial backing as well as the street cred that allowed him to go on and sign the likes of the Sex Pistols, Human League etc. Which eventually ended up giving him the money to buy VA. To me its like asking if we would have ever heard of Brian Epstein or the Beatles if they had never got together.
The Beatles: Maybe. Someone might hae brought them to the attention of a record company before they got pissed off and broke up.
Brian Epstein: Deffo NOT

TB v RB
Tubular Bells: Again maybe. Someone might have decided to take a gamble on it. After all its not as if Virgin put a massive ad campaign behind its release. It did sell by itself and on its own worth.
R Branson: I doubt it. He would prob be the owner of a double galzing window company or some such thing, with a load of failed ventures behind him.

Anyone got any comments about this?

I have emailed the radio times with this reply.
radio.times@bbc.co.uk

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Korgscrew

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Posted: April 25 2003, 08:49

I think that he would still have been a successful businessman, and it seems to me like he does have a strong entrepreneurial spirit, but whether he'd have been successful without a hit record like Tubular Bells on his hands is a matter of speculation. Certainly it doesn't seem like his ventures had failed up until that point (I believe the student magazine that he published was quite successful, as I think was the mail order records business), and he appears to be able to get the right kind of teams together - he might not have known much about music himself, but he was able to take advantage of people did, and without those people, Tubular Bells would probably not have been recorded at all.

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Posted: April 25 2003, 12:32

It was one of those rare magical moments in life when everything came together at the right time for the right reason. Call it fate call it whatever you will. Richard Branson was the man with the money, Tom Newman was the man with the know-how and ultimately Mike Oldfield was the man with the idea.

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Posted: April 29 2003, 09:57

Congratulations Richard Branson, you either will be a millonair or end up in jail.

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