Marmalade Records Marmalade Records Marmalade Records was a short-lived British independent record label (distributed by Polydor). Started by Swiss-resident Georgian pop impresario and ex-manager of both the Rolling Stones and the Yardbirds Giorgio Gomelsky in 1966, it released records by artists including Julie Driscoll and Brian Auger and The Trinity, who jointly reached No. 5 in the UK in 1968 with "This Wheel's on Fire" and Blossom Toes, as well as early recordings by Graham Gouldman, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme, who became 10cc. Marmalade's first release was in August 1966; a controversial single called "We Love The Pirate Stations" by five
Harvey Lisberg – their only US top 20 hit. In 1987, Lisberg colluded with Brian Berg of Polydor to reunite the two camps on one compilation which manifested as "Changing Faces – The Very Best of 10cc and Godley & Creme", the best-selling 10cc album to date. Godley and Creme themselves split up in 1988. The success of "Changing Faces" prompted Polydor to ask for another album featuring all four original band members which was delivered, in a diluted form, with 10cc's tenth album, "Meanwhile" (1992). A few years later, Avex, the biggest independent record label in Japan, commissioned and released 10cc's