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|title=Live At the Brixton Academy: A riotous life in the music business

|author=Simon Parkes and J S Rafaeli

|publisher=Serpent's Tail

|date=January 2014

|summary=Fifteen years of running the Brixton Academy, 1982-97, by the man who purchased an almost derelict former cinema building and placed it firmly at the cutting edge of British pop, rock and dance music.

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Who on earth would want to buy and run a live music venue in deepest Brixton, and manage to keep it running for fifteen years, transforming it against all the odds into what becomes one of Britain’s most iconic establishments of its kind? Such an undertaking calls for somebody with special managerial skills who can keep one step ahead of the game, walking a precarious tightrope, keeping gangsters, punters, promoters and the local authorities onside. It also requires a good deal of luck.

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