Alan McGee

Alan McGee

Born: September 29, 1960
in East Kilbride, Scotland
Alan McGee is a Scottish businessman and music industry executive. He has been a record label owner, musician, manager, and music blogger for The Guardian. He co-founded the independent Creation Records label, running it from 1983 until its closure in 1999.

Movies for Alan McGee...

Choose Irvine Welsh.
Title: Choose Irvine Welsh.
Character: Self
Released: August 23, 2023
Type: Movie
Irvine Welsh in his own words, with Iggy Pop, Martin Compston, Danny Boyle and others paying tribute
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Kick Out the Jams: The Story of XFM
Title: Kick Out the Jams: The Story of XFM
Character: Self
Released: August 31, 2022
Type: Movie
Titled after the first-ever song to play on their airwaves, Kick Out the Jams follows the development of XFM from its rebellious pirate radio roots in the early 90’s, through to its official FM radio launch in 1997 as a major platform for launching alternative talent into the mainstream. The doc deep-dives into the struggles and influence of the station which gave rise to the likes of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, whose global hits The Office and The Ricky Gervais Show were originally developed while working at the radio station.
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Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music: A Musical History
Title: Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music: A Musical History
Character: Self
Released: December 6, 2018
Type: Movie
Documentary exploring the music of rock band Roxy Music, who have a good claim to be one of the UK's most influential bands. Led by charismatic front man Bryan Ferry, their striking style and great songs won them an army of fans who would go on to make their own mark in the world of music. In this celebration of the music of both Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music, insights and anecdotes are provided by household names from Sadie Frost to Glenn Gregory & Martyn Ware, Gaz Coombes, New Order's Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert, Shaun Ryder and Alan McGee, Ana Matronic and more.
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Indie & Beyond with Shaun Ryder and Alan McGee
Title: Indie & Beyond with Shaun Ryder and Alan McGee
Released: November 2, 2018
Type: Movie
Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder and Creation Records boss Alan McGee reveal a selection of their all-time favourite tracks. Theirs is a blistering playlist of indie, punk and ska classics from Buzzcocks to The Specials, Junior Murvin to Marc Bolan, Orange Juice to Underworld and many more.
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Teenage Superstars
Title: Teenage Superstars
Character: Himself
Released: June 22, 2017
Type: Movie
Grant McPhee's sequel to Big Gold Dream picks up where the previous film left off, and continues its thrilling tour of the pre-Britpop, Scottish music scene. It features bands, such as The Bluebells, The Pastels, The Soup Dragons and an early incarnation of Teenage Fanclub; plenty of rich archive footage; and fascinating interviews with some of the key people of the time, including Edwyn Collins, Bobby Gillespie, Jim Reid, Sean Dickson, Eugene Kelly and Alan McGee.
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Supersonic
Title: Supersonic
Character: Self
Released: October 2, 2016
Type: Movie
Supersonic charts the meteoric rise of Oasis from the council estates of Manchester to some of the biggest concerts of all time in just three short years. This palpable, raw and moving film shines a light on one of the most genre and generation-defining British bands that has ever existed and features candid new interviews with Noel and Liam Gallagher, their mother, and members of the band and road crew.
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Big Gold Dream: Scottish Post-Punk and Infiltrating the Mainstream
Title: Big Gold Dream: Scottish Post-Punk and Infiltrating the Mainstream
Character: Himself
Released: June 19, 2015
Type: Movie
Documentary on the independent Edinburgh record label Fast Product and Postcard Records and associated bands like Fire Engines, Scars and Josef K
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Slowdive: Souvlaki
Title: Slowdive: Souvlaki
Character: Himself
Released: June 15, 2015
Type: Movie
The film follows the band Slowdive as they come up in the flourishing Thames Valley shoegaze scene and chronicles the making of their classic album Souvlaki. It features interviews with all of the band members as well as Creation Records' Alan McGee, producer Chris Hufford, and engineer Ed Buller.
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The 90s: Ten Years That Changed the World
Title: The 90s: Ten Years That Changed the World
Character: Self
Released: June 13, 2015
Type: Movie
Documentary that outlines the 1990s and the decade the changed the world.
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Oasis vs. Blur | Duel at the Peak of Britpop
Title: Oasis vs. Blur | Duel at the Peak of Britpop
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2014
Type: Movie
During the 90s, Britpop dominated the airwaves and an epic pop rivalry sparked into life when Blur’s single ‘Country House’ went up against Oasis’s ‘Roll With It’ in the charts.
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Svengali
Title: Svengali
Character: Himself
Released: June 19, 2013
Type: Movie
Svengali tells the story of Dixie, a postman from South Wales, and a music fanatic. All his life he’s dreamed of discovering a great band and then one day, trawling through YouTube, he finds them… ‘The Premature Congratulations’. He hunts them down and offers them his management services. They are young, arrogant, sexy and utterly magnificent. Putting their demo on a cassette tape, Dixie heads out onto the streets of London…
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Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years of the Top 10
Title: Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years of the Top 10
Character: Self - Co-founder, Creation Records
Released: November 16, 2012
Type: Movie
The story of the British pop charts from their beginnings on the 50s through the heyday of the 70s and 80s to their re-emergence in a digital world.
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Upside Down: The Creation Records Story
Title: Upside Down: The Creation Records Story
Character: Himself
Released: October 19, 2010
Type: Movie
Over a quarter of a century since it began and a decade after it folded, this is the definitive film about Creation Records, one of the world's most successful and colorful independent labels. This is the story of the rock n roll dream and its accompanying nightmares. Millions of sales on both sides of the Atlantic, near bankruptcy, pills, thrills, spats, prats, success, excess, pick me ups, breakdowns and of course some of THE defining music of the late 20th Century. This is the definitive and fully authorised story of the UK's most inspired and dissolute label, from the Jesus & Mary Chain at the Living Room to Oasis at Knebworth.
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The Britpop Story 'It Really, Really, Really, Could Happen'
Title: The Britpop Story 'It Really, Really, Really, Could Happen'
Character: Himself
Released: August 15, 2005
Type: Movie
In August 1995 Blur and Oasis were engaged in a head-to-head chart battle which divided music fans and led to a wider argument about British pop music. John Harris, journalist and author of The Last Party - the definitive study of the entwinement of music and politics in the 1990s - presents a documentary charting the rise of Britpop, its brief romance with New Labour and the emergence of 'new lad' culture. Finally, as Britpop declines, he asks what legacy it has left. Including contributions from Blur's Graham Coxon, Elastica's Justine Frischmann, Sleeper's Louise Wener, former New Labour insider Darren Kalynuk, and the founder of Creation records, Alan McGee.
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There We Were, Now Here We Are... The Making of Oasis
Title: There We Were, Now Here We Are... The Making of Oasis
Character: Himself
Released: September 3, 2004
Type: Movie
A documentary made for television that looks back on the development and rapid rise of Oasis from being a band practicing nightly in the Boardwalk to one the biggest British bands of the last thirty years. Building from the formation of the band (with Liam apparently just fed up waiting for other bands to release records and decides to do something himself), the film uses contributions from key people really well to tell the story in an engaging way.
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Title: Classic Albums
Character: Self
Released: April 14, 1997
Type: TV
A documentary series about pop and rock albums that are considered the best or most distinctive of a well-known band or musician or that exemplify a stage in the history of music.