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So You Wanna Be A Label Boss? Start Your Own Record Label

Ed Jones, Melody Maker, 29 November 1975

"As anybody knows who has read Karl Marx, it is distribution which is important if there is to be any kind of revolution. I'm not a Marxist, but as far as records are concerned, that is where people must do their work. It's no good opening an office through EMI, for instance. That's about as revolutionary as my granny. You must sell in the streets, from the backs of lorries and make things cheaper. You should set up a whole different thing." — Mick Jagger, Music Week, August 1970.

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