Stiff release the first UK indie single

August 1976: Number 11 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicIt helped that Nick Lowe's debut solo single was a great record – So It Goes was a brilliant, breezily craven rip-off of Thin Lizzy's The Boys Are Back in Town and Steely Dan's Reelin' in the Years – but the record's real influence lay not in the music but the label that released it: Stiff. Set up by entrepreneurs Dave Robinson and Andrew Jakeman with a £400 loan, it went on to release the UK's first pun...

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