Robin Turner in conversation with James Dean Bradfield
Heavenly Recordings began releasing music in the spring of 1990. Although initially considered to be post acid house, the signing of Blackwood punk band Manic Street Preachers changed Heavenly’s course and allowed it to become one of the UK’s most eclectic, exciting record labels – a position it still holds three decades on thanks to a global roster and a canny knack for taking leftfield artists into the mainstream without compromising their vision.
Robin Turner began working at Heavenly in 1994, having left Newport for London around the same time the label signed the Manics. His book about the first thirty years of Heavenly Recordings – Believe in Magic – is published this week.
James Dean Bradfield is one third of Manic Street Preachers. His recent solo album, Even In Exile, told the story of the life, death and the continuing legend of Chilean political activist Victor Jara.
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