David Cavanagh: The Creation Records Story – My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry for the Prize (Virgin)
Stevie Chick, The Guardian, 25 November 2000
WHEN NEWS OF the closure of Creation Records broke on November 26 1999, one person at least must have been grateful. David Cavanagh now had an ending for his book. Doubtless conceived as an orthodox rags-to-riches account of how Alan McGee's stewardship of the most celebrated independent record label in the world took him from a Glasgow housing scheme to 10 Downing Street, accruing vast wealth and narcotic-fuelled notoriety along the way, Cavanagh's project got overtaken by events.
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