It's dEAD deAD gooD - With Steve Harrison

It's dAED deAD gooD - The Book Tour - In Conversation With Steve Harrison.

Steve launched the Dead Dead Good Record label and management company in 1989 and later the Transworld Dance label.

Dead Dead Good was the home and launched the career of The Charlatans. Dead Dead Good supported the careers of many artists over the next twenty-years working with the likes of , Mark Burgess, Chameleons, Charlatans, Peter Hook (Joy Division / New Order / Monaco), Dario G, Digital Orgasm, , Mantaray, Oceanic, Orange Deluxe, Relish, Rhythm Eternity, Rig, Sussed, That Uncertain Feeling, Venus Beads, Jez Williams (Doves), Alfa 9, Alfie...To name but a few!

He talks about his friendships with the likes of Tony Wilson (Factory Records), Peter Grant (Led Zeppelin), Ian Brown, Noel Gallagher, and working with industry icons such as Seymour Stein, and Martin Mills. Labels such as Sire, Island, Parlophone, Polydor, Def America, Atlantic and Beggars Banquet. Working with the USA booking agents of the Doors and the Jefferson Aeroplane and selling out the likes of the iconic Filmore in San Franscico reinventing psychedelic lighting designer Captain Wizzo from the 1960’s across the world.

The studios, the tours, venues, fans, advising and placing music in films, sponsorships, festivals the bootleggers, the ticket touts…the logistics of global touring operations.

His love for Manchester City, riding motorcycles, and scooters.

Dead Dead Good engaged in the release of over seventy-five albums and two-hundred singles, including Number One albums and singles across the world.

Steve avoided what appeared and inevitable sale to would be suitors such as Richard Branson, RCA Records and retained his independence and loyalty to Northwich and Didsbury, Manchester. The Transworld record sleeves celebrated the town with ‘Made in Northwich’ on every release. Steve designed and commissioned the Big Mushroom Studios in Middlewich as a base for the Charlatans.

A story of a passion of music, record shops, of community, investment, the industry, deal-making, success, loss, tragedy, highs and lows, creative souls and lots of other worldly stuff.


“We’d meet outside Horners scooter shop in Old Trafford and head off on the runs with people like Steve Harrison (DDG) and attend soul all-nighters” – Ian Brown (Stone Roses)

“Through retail, labels, management, promotion and tireless enthusiasm, Steve has lots of wisdom to impart and stories to tell. He has done so much for the North-West and has music pumping through his veins” – Mark Radcliffe (Broadcaster/Author)