The Creation Records Story: My Magpie Eyes are Hungry for the Prize

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To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. Saying My Magpie Eyes are Hungry for the Prize is ‘about’ Creation Records is like saying Moby Dick is about a whale. A lesser author would have slavishly documented each and every act in writing *The* Creation Records Story.The Oasis bits aside - they're as tiresome to read about as they are to look at or listen to - this is a fitting overview of a label that played a significant role in defining the independent music scene in the UK from the 1980s onwards.

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