Shona Laing "South" 1988

...The biggest chart success for South was in NZ where Pagan got ‘(Glad I'm) Not A Kennedy’ to No.2 on the NZ Singles Chart in August 1987. The single stayed on the chart for eight weeks. When Pagan’s parent company went into receivership in 1988, the rights to Laing’s recordings reverted to her...
...Laing had created enough interest in the USA to sign to Atlantic Records in New York but the deal went sour partway through recording her album, after the A&R person who signed her left the company. Atlantic dropped Laing and made it difficult for her to gain access to the recordings.
She explained the difficulties with Atlantic to Rip It Up (June 1992): “Eight months of legal negotiations. The tracks were incidental though, it wasn’t really over the material, it was about whether I ever worked again or not. We had to pay back some money, which I have never heard of before in my life. Their main reason for terminating the situation was that we would have been over budget had we finished, which is absolute crap.”
Fortunately Laing was able to work with Sony NZ to rectify the situation. Paul Ellis, her former manager, was now Head of A&R and Sony MD Michael Glading was a longtime fan. During the 1990s, Laing released on Sony: 1905-1990 Retrospective (1991), New On Earth (1992), Shona (1994) and the live album Roadworks (1997).
Laing’s most recent independent album is Pass the Whisper (2007) that revisits ‘Soviet Snow’ and ‘(Glad I'm) Not A Kennedy’ in a more acoustic setting. In April 2020, Shona Laing's South was named the 2020 Independent Music NZ Classic Record...to be continued... - Murray Cammick and AudioCulture
trax:
01 Drive Baby Drive 02 Caught 03 Neat and Tidy 04 The Migrant and Refugee 05 Soviet Snow 06 (Glad I'm) Not A Kennedy 07 Your Reputation 08 The Bishop 09 Dockyard on a River 10 Highway Warriors 11 South
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