Miles Copeland
13 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 26, 2022 by Miles Copeland · across every show →
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Dec 26, 2022
Copeland avoided bankruptcy by negotiating a 50 percent payout over two years
“I went to all the people I owed money to, and I said, look, if you bankrupt me, you know what's going to happen. You know, it'll go to the courts, and you'll end up with one penny for every pound that you're owed, if that. But if you give me a couple of years,…”
Dec 26, 2022
Dec 26, 2022 negative
Dec 26, 2022 bearish
Dec 26, 2022
Jerry Moss refused to offer A&M equity to acquire I.R.S. Records
“Jerry Moss, I wanted to merge with A&M and get shares in A&M. And Jerry Moss had said initially, yes, we'll do that. Then when I went in to finally make the deal, he said, well, we can't give you shares in A&M, but we'll buy IRS. And he quoted a number which w…”
Dec 26, 2022
The Police recorded their debut album for £1,000 in a doctor's studio
“And he said, look, I've got this studio I've built in the back of my medical practice, and I'll give you a month in the studio for a thousand pounds. So I said to Stuart, how about let's make a police album? So I became effectively the record company. So the p…”
Dec 26, 2022
Dec 26, 2022 positive
Copeland: College Event succeeded because no direct UK competitor existed
“And actually the magazine kind of took off, because unbeknownst to me, there was literally nothing like it. So a lot of the agents and everybody began to take advantage of it because now they could advertise for, you know, 52 cents and reach who they wanted to…”
Dec 26, 2022
Dec 26, 2022
Warner Bros. outbid I.R.S. Records' $6 million offer to sign R.E.M.
“Jerry Moss and he says, well, I'll contribute you three million. And I was putting up three million. Anyway, I say to the group, this is what we'll offer. And it ended up between us and Warner Brothers. And then the manager and the lawyer come to me and they s…”
Dec 26, 2022 positive
Dec 26, 2022
Copeland acquired foreign-language acts cheaply because the American market undervalued them
“World music was not considered a big music. You know, acts that sang in foreign language were not doing well in America. So you could pick up a lot of these acts for very little money. So a lot of the acts that I would sign later on in life were acts that were…”
Dec 26, 2022
Copeland used his American accent to project authority when booking UK clubs
“I think one of the advantages that I had was I had an American accent. So when I'd call up a club, you know, it'd be, hi, my name is Miles Copeland, I've got this new band to book, you know, and They would not be quite so sure as to who this guy was. Well, may…”