Recorded music history: The Immediate Discography
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The Immediate Discography: the First 20 Years
Winner of the 2017 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research (Rock Music Discographies).
The Immediate Discography
Immediate is bounded in time, a quaint (or should that be Quant?) time capsule forever synonymous with Swinging 60s London. Incorporation to insolvency was only 5 five years but the reissues keep appearing 50 years on. Not surprising when you consider that the roll call of artists – e.g. Small Faces, Nice, Rod Stewart, Humble Pie, Chris Farlowe and Duncan Browne – was formidable.
Also, let's not forget this far on in time that Immediate was the first British independent to score a number 1 on their own label. This, perhaps, is one of the reasons that the label has such fervent admirers – ‘the little bastard Immediate’ stuck two fingers up at an oligopolistic industry that hadn’t changed since before WW2 and stirred things up good and proper.
Without Immediate we might not have had Harvest, Vertigo, Nova or Dawn from the majors and we may not have seen further maverick–run independents, such as Charisma, Virgin, Stiff, Cherry Red, Rough Trade, Factory or Creation.
Included are comprehensive listings of all original UK Immediate releases plus all known UK reissues up to 1985. Note that this book was completed with extensive input from Barry 'Mr. Immediate' Green, curator of Charly Records' Immediate archive - discographies don't come much more 'officially endorsed' than this!
Also, let's not forget this far on in time that Immediate was the first British independent to score a number 1 on their own label. This, perhaps, is one of the reasons that the label has such fervent admirers – ‘the little bastard Immediate’ stuck two fingers up at an oligopolistic industry that hadn’t changed since before WW2 and stirred things up good and proper.
Without Immediate we might not have had Harvest, Vertigo, Nova or Dawn from the majors and we may not have seen further maverick–run independents, such as Charisma, Virgin, Stiff, Cherry Red, Rough Trade, Factory or Creation.
Included are comprehensive listings of all original UK Immediate releases plus all known UK reissues up to 1985. Note that this book was completed with extensive input from Barry 'Mr. Immediate' Green, curator of Charly Records' Immediate archive - discographies don't come much more 'officially endorsed' than this!
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