Andrew Harrison
speaker
859 appearances
10 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 7 Sep
Andrew Harrison’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He was a great old school journo.
He'd written the report on David Bowie turning up at Victoria Station and doing the Hitler salute.
So he knew his stuff.
The thing is, they were in a funny position because he had sewn up all the good writers.
And they could, it was a handful of people from sounds like the brilliant Dave Kavanagh, who we might talk about a bit later.
He was a genius.
But they didn't have, Cure had basically booked up all the good writers.
So they were stuck having to put an advert in the media guardian, say, can you write?
Can you spell?
Do you like rock and roll?
Do you want a job?
So that was me.
So that got me through the door.
Listeners will not believe it, but every Monday there used to be a pullout in the Guardian about the media full of jobs.
Full of jobs with actually quite good money.
weird but I think they'd done a deal with one label I think it was Fontana or whatever and actually that tape's quite good I've still got it lying around somewhere it's almost like the kind of home tape you'd make for your mates but I think the problem with Early Select was it was definitely trying to be a Q me too because all the publishers who had weekly inkies like the NME and Sounds and Melody Maker they were getting spanked by Q which was a perfect bound high quality magazine all based off the CD boom as well
Yeah, well, it was for an older audience.
The CD boom had, by the way, these were in the days when the older audience was 36 years old.
I know, imagine.
But it's like people rebuying their collections on CD at a vast, vast uptick.
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