Alan McGee

Few other record label owner/producers had more impact on British music during the late '80s and '90s than Alan McGee. Inspired by the anti-authoritarian, D.I.Y., and brash attitude of punk, McGee helped turn Creation Records into the home for a litany of key names in British alternative rock during this era. As Creation's owner, his ability to pull success out of the jaws of failure (and sometimes failure out of the jaws of success), and in the meantime produce an inimitable body of records, are indeed legendary. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1961, McGee worked as a railroad...