Westwood Recordings

About

Westwood was based in Montgomery, Mid Wales, UK. It was run by directors and his wife, Gwen, and according to 'Music Week' of the 22nd of March 1975 it was formed in 1971 with the aim of giving a recording break to British Country acts. The article added that custom pressing plants were used and that the artists were partly responsible for selling and distributing their records, along with Westwood itself; the deals were for twelve months and gave Westwood full rights to the material. A separate publishing agreement gave the company and the artists 50% each, and a stipulation in the contract was that the artists could not re-record their tracks for other companies for two years after the recording was issued. A couple of years later, 'MW' of the 19th of March 1977 revealed that Westwood was to start doing tape-lease deals: Gordon Davies was quoted as saying "Too many groups have spl

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