Virgin Records

“We only opened a record shop when the post office went on strike for two months, and our mail order company then looked in peril, so we then went above a shoe shop in Oxford Street and found an empty space and threw some records and pillows on the floor and he…”

“In order to keep all the jobs protected at Virgin Records and at the airline, I needed to sell something, and so, very sadly, we sold Virgin Records. We got a billion dollars for it, so it would make sure that we kept BA honest.”

“We didn't have a record company, so I took it to seven record companies, nobody would put it out, and so I thought, screw it, let's do it, let's, let's start our own record company.”