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Marmalade Records


Marmalade Records was a short-lived British independent record label (distributed by Polydor). Started by Swiss-resident Georgian pop impresario and ex-manager of both the Rolling Stones and the Yardbirds Giorgio Gomelsky in 1966, it released records by artists including Julie Driscoll and Brian Auger and The Trinity, who jointly reached No. 5 in the UK in 1968 with This Wheel's on Fire and Blossom Toes, as well as early recordings by Graham Gouldman, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme, who became 10cc. Marmalade's first release was in August 1966; a controversial single called "We Love The Pirate Stations" by five well-known musicians masquerading as The Roaring Sixties who were mainly members of the Ivy League, who later went on to release hits as The Flower Pot Men. "We Love The Pirates" was not a hit despite extensive airplay on Radio 270, Radio Caroline and Radio London – it is a bit of a half-hearted song at medium tempo but still well loved by offshore radio aficionados. The Marmalade label ceased to exist in 1969 when it ran out of funds.

Driscoll again performed This Wheel's on Fire—without Auger—as the closing title music for BBC TV's Absolutely Fabulous comedy show between 1990 and 1996. She was partnered on this version of the Bob Dylan/ Rick Danko song by AbFab writer and star Jennifer Saunders's husbandAdrian Edmondson.


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