7T’s Records

Infobox record label
name = 7T's


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founded = 2001
founder = Mark Brennan
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genre = Glam Teenybop
country = United Kingdom
location = Buckinghamshire, England
url = [http://www.cherryred.co.uk/7ts/index.htm]

7T’s Records

7T’s Records is specialist reissue record label founded in Buckinghamshire in 2001 by Mark Brennan as part of the Cherry Red Records group of companies. Brennan was previously best known for his membership of Oi!/punk band The Business and stewardship of the Captain Oi! Punk reissue label. However, his first love was glam/glitter bands, and 7T’s output reflects that genre’s boom period in the early 70s. “I just felt that the whole Glam/Teenybop era had been treated shabbily by the labels - crap, cheap looking 'Best Ofs' or 'Collections', with no thought or effort put in. People forget just how many records these bands sold in their heyday. Like with our punk stuff, I wanted to do original albums with relevant bonus tracks or chronological singles collections. All of course with the proper artwork, sleevenotes, foreign picture sleeves, proper mastering, etc.” [1]

The other key figures in the label’s development are restoration/remastering engineer Tim Turan and sleevenote compiler Phil Hendriks, both themselves musicians (Turan with Oxford’s Car Thieves, Hendriks with Blackburn’s Stiffs) and designer Tim Smith.

List Of 7T’s Artists

Glitter Band
Showaddywaddy
Hello
Lieutenant Pigeon
Geordie
Arrows
Barry Blue
Mungo Jerry
Mud
10cc
Slik
Chicory Tip
The Drifters
Smokey/Smokie
Dead End Kids
Bay City Rollers
The Osmonds
Donny Osmond
Marie Osmond
Alvin Stardust
Suzi Quatro

References

1. Interview with Alex Ogg for My Favourite Flavour magazine issue 002 2007