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RECORD

LABEL

PROFILE

CREATION RECORDS

IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS POSTCARD, RUN

BY ALAN HORNE. THEN HE PASSED THE SCOTTISH

INDIE–POP BATON ONTO ALAN MCGEE, WHOSE

LABEL DOMINATED THE 80S AND 90S, VIA BANDS

BOTH GROUNDBREAKING AND POPULAR. THEY

ALSO LIKED TO PARTY, WHICH CONTRIBUTED TO

THEIR UNDOING. HERE WE SEPARATE CREATION

TRUTH FROM MYTH

PAUL LESTER

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