Scott quoted in Malcolm Dome, Rap Trap, Metal Forces #68 Jan. 1992, p. 8 11.
"What was the problem? Well in America every time we released an album there just seemed to be a new regine in charge at the label. We'd spend time getting to know everyone at the company, psyching them up for an LP, only for the personnel to change the next time around. So we'd have to go through the whole process from the beginning again! That wasn't the case in the UK, where were dealing with the same people all the time, and they were great to us, but in the US things just finally came to a head during the run-up to the release of the Persistence of Time LP. Mike Bone, who was then president of the company and also a rock fan, told us that the company wouldn't stop until we hit platinum. Then we came over to Europe to support Iron Maiden, and returned to find that PolyGram had bought out Island and had fired or let go everybody, including Bone. So, for the first three months after the LP was released we had nobody working on it at Island! Even so, we sold 600,000 copies of Persistence of Time without any promotion. Had we had the full backing of a label really firing then we'd have made it to the platinum mark, of that I'm sure.
"What we really should have done is have a 'key man' clause witten into our contract, allowing us to walk from the label if a crucial person in the company as far as we are concerned left."
"What was the problem? Well in America every time we released an album there just seemed to be a new regine in charge at the label. We'd spend time getting to know everyone at the company, psyching them up for an LP, only for the personnel to change the next time around. So we'd have to go through the whole process from the beginning again! That wasn't the case in the UK, where were dealing with the same people all the time, and they were great to us, but in the US things just finally came to a head during the run-up to the release of the Persistence of Time LP. Mike Bone, who was then president of the company and also a rock fan, told us that the company wouldn't stop until we hit platinum. Then we came over to Europe to support Iron Maiden, and returned to find that PolyGram had bought out Island and had fired or let go everybody, including Bone. So, for the first three months after the LP was released we had nobody working on it at Island! Even so, we sold 600,000 copies of Persistence of Time without any promotion. Had we had the full backing of a label really firing then we'd have made it to the platinum mark, of that I'm sure.
"What we really should have done is have a 'key man' clause witten into our contract, allowing us to walk from the label if a crucial person in the company as far as we are concerned left."
