Behind the music: How the long view paid off for Elbow

The band's A&R man was a fan long before he began working with Guy Garvey and co. Here, Jim Chancellor explains why artists still need labels (but not as much as labels need artists)When Jim Chancellor of Fiction Records was presented with the Music Week award for A&R of the year recently by Elbow's Guy Garvey, he ran up on stage, jumped on top of the singer and wrapped his arms and legs around him. Not the usual behaviour of a record label executive, you'd imagine. Yet, sitting with Chancellor ...

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