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- ↑ Rate Your Music Labels > Stereo Gold Award
- ↑ So you want to be in the music business - Tony Hatch Page 216
- ↑ Billboard February 19, 1972 Page 67 International News Reports, Bridge Named Director Of U.K. Industry Body
- ↑ Kemp's Music & Recording Industry Yearbook Page 213
- ↑ Billboard August 8, 1970 Page 47 U.K. Rack Consortium Starts Budget Line
- ↑ Ray Davies: A Complicated Life - Jonny Rogan Page 285 The Seduction
- ↑ Billboard July 20, 1974 Page 53 From the Music Capitals of the World, LONDON
- ↑ Billboard February 17, 1979 International Page 74 U.K. Market Trust, Woolworth Will Bow Own Budget Line by Peter Jones