Alan McGee

Alan McGee

Birthday: 1960-09-29

Place of Birth: East Kilbride, Scotland

Biography: 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

Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music: A Musical History
Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music: A Musical History

Documentary exploring the music of rock band Roxy Music, who have a good claim to be one of the UK's...

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Svengali
Svengali

Svengali tells the story of Dixie, a postman from South Wales, and a music fanatic. All his life he’...

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Choose Irvine Welsh.
Choose Irvine Welsh.

Irvine Welsh in his own words, with Iggy Pop, Martin Compston, Danny Boyle and others paying tribute...

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Indie & Beyond with Shaun Ryder and Alan McGee
Indie & Beyond with Shaun Ryder and Alan McGee

Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder and Creation Records boss Alan McGee reveal a selection of their ...

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Kick Out the Jams: The Story of XFM
Kick Out the Jams: The Story of XFM

Titled after the first-ever song to play on their airwaves, Kick Out the Jams follows the developmen...

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Big Gold Dream: Scottish Post-Punk and Infiltrating the Mainstream
Big Gold Dream: Scottish Post-Punk and Infiltrating the Mainstream

Documentary on the independent Edinburgh record label Fast Product and Postcard Records and associat...

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Slowdive: Souvlaki
Slowdive: Souvlaki

The film follows the band Slowdive as they come up in the flourishing Thames Valley shoegaze scene a...

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Supersonic
Supersonic

Supersonic charts the meteoric rise of Oasis from the council estates of Manchester to some of the b...

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Upside Down: The Creation Records Story
Upside Down: The Creation Records Story

Over a quarter of a century since it began and a decade after it folded, this is the definitive film...

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Teenage Superstars
Teenage Superstars

Grant McPhee's sequel to Big Gold Dream picks up where the previous film left off, and continues its...

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The Britpop Story 'It Really, Really, Really, Could Happen'
The Britpop Story 'It Really, Really, Really, Could Happen'

In August 1995 Blur and Oasis were engaged in a head-to-head chart battle which divided music fans a...

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Oasis vs. Blur | Duel at the Peak of Britpop
Oasis vs. Blur | Duel at the Peak of Britpop

During the 90s, Britpop dominated the airwaves and an epic pop rivalry sparked into life when Blur’s...

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The 90s: Ten Years That Changed the World
The 90s: Ten Years That Changed the World

Documentary that outlines the 1990s and the decade the changed the world....

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There We Were, Now Here We Are... The Making of Oasis
There We Were, Now Here We Are... The Making of Oasis

A documentary made for television that looks back on the development and rapid rise of Oasis from be...

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Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years of the Top 10
Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years of the Top 10

The story of the British pop charts from their beginnings on the 50s through the heyday of the 70s a...

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Oasis: Definitely Maybe
Oasis: Definitely Maybe

Where were you at the start of 1994? This was going to be the year it would all change, it was parka...

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