Uploaded September 2021 | Updated September 2026, 9 minutes ago

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In this episode with Ray Williams, Joe Chambers asks about how he got started in the music business first as a fan, and then later as a press agent and then manager. Ray speaks about his time at Ready, Steady, Go and then acting as a press agent for the band Cream. When he was hired to be the A & R man for the new London arm of Liberty Records, he placed an ad in the New Musical Express looking for talent. A poet named Bernie Taupin answered the ad and Ray put him in touch with another applicant named Reginald Dwight. The two hit it off and went on to make music history.

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