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
The Yardbirds Your Love", a Beatles-influenced Graham Gouldman composition built around a four-chord progression (Em-G-A-Amin) played on a harpsichord by Brian Auger. "For Your Love" hit the top of the charts in the UK and Canada and reached No. 6 in the United States, but it displeased Clapton, a blues purist whose vision extended beyond three-minute singles. Frustrated by the commercial approach, he abruptly left the band on 25 March 1965, the day the single was released. Soon Clapton joined John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, but not before he recommended Jimmy Page, a prominent young session guitarist, to replace him. Content with