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
Consequences (Godley & Creme album) pushed into contact with the strings, created a 'bowing' effect, producing notes and chords with endless sustain that, with additional audio effects treatment and overdubbing, could emulate violins, violas, cellos and basses. Godley and Creme had begun work on songs for the Gizmo before leaving 10cc, but quit the band when they realised the songs could not comfortably appear on 10cc albums. The album was recorded over 18 months at Strawberry Studios in Stockport and The Manor in Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxfordshire, with Godley, Creme and engineer Martin Lawrence going to extraordinary lengths to create its special effects. At one point, to