Press wrangler and wingman to the stars, Glen Colson on his Mackeson-flavoured memories of life at Charisma Records, preserving the bullet holes in his parents' pub, drumming for the Bonzos at the Leicester Top Rank, a teenage Kate Bush auditioning in a doctor's waiting room, the 'three-sided' Monty Python album, the malodorous Stiff Records office ("people used to sleep there"), Graham Parker and his albino ferret, Larry Wallis and his pet snake, Ian Dury and his violent roadies, John Arlott, Deke Leonard, Beatles drug-dealer Terry The Pill, the Don Ellis Orchestra, the Swinging Medallions and legendary bird-impersonator Big Jake. 

Glen's memoir 'Nefarious' is available here ... 

https://glencolson.com

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