| Author's Note | | xiii | |
| Cast (as they appear) | | xv | |
| Before | | 1 | |
| PART ONE 202 KENSINGTON PARK ROAD - ROCK `N' ROLL MECHANICS |
| | 3 | |
| | 21 | |
| `It poured down with rain and a Rolls-Royce pulled up' |
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| | 44 | |
| `They were like four soft toys commandeered by the Wicked Witch of the West' |
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| | 65 | |
| `Having a customer walk in was an event. You had to pretend not to get too excited' |
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| | 85 | |
| `These were people I considered to be at the height of cool' |
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| | 112 | |
| `What we were trying to achieve could not be achieved short of driving the machines mad' |
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| | 139 | |
| `I'm proud to say that Geoff once said to me, "You may not be our most successful artist or even our best but you're certainly our cheapest"' |
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| PART TWO 137 BLENHEIM CRESCENT - `FUTURISTIC RECORD LABEL' |
| | 169 | |
| | 176 | |
| `And they've blown it all on plywood' |
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| | 204 | |
| `When the Obscene Publications guys came in they were rather jolly' |
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| | 231 | |
| `Just because we were southerners didn't mean we couldn't see the beauty of their uncovering of that particular layer of northern Englishness' |
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| PART THREE COLLIER STREET AND AFTER - THE MODEL |
| | 253 | |
| | 260 | |
| `At the end all he said was, "Jesus Christ! I don't think I could get anyone to buy this"' |
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| | 286 | |
| `Wear sunglasses at all times - tick: done that' |
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| | 307 | |
| `Don't worry, Richard, nothing is lost to the universal mind' |
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| | 324 | |
| `Like some giant machine out of Dr Who |
| | 341 | |
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| Chapter Fourteen An Interlude |
| | 343 | |
| `As it turned out, there were far too many chiefs at One Little Indian' |
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| PART FOUR 66 GOLBORNE ROAD - ROUGH TRADE REDUX |
| | 359 | |
| | 364 | |
| `The call would come in: Peter was in jail and needed bailing out' |
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| | 384 | |
| `A suck-it-and-see deal: bang in a quarter of a million pounds or thereabouts and give it a spin' |
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| Epilogue The Last Cartel Meeting, 25/04/09 | | 401 | |
| Cast (as they appear to be now) | | 402 | |
| Those Who Served (and continue to serve) | | 404 | |
| Bibliography | | 406 | |
| Notes | | 410 | |
| Acknowledgements | | 414 | |
| Backword | | 415 | |
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