“…the British music industry has never, ever created anything, ever, in its history. It has never innovated anything. It’s done plenty of good things – it’s brought plenty of great innovators to light and helped to make great records and events – but nothing of any value was ever created inside the British or American music business. It always came from the outside, from outsiders created in the real world.”
Read Johnny Marr’s talk about musical outsiders.
Good article – Mr Marr talks a lot of sense.
Could have also included such figures as Joe Meek and Phil Spector.