GIVE EM EL!

October 8, 2025

in New Catalogue

GIVE EM EL!

Back in 1984, Cherry Red A&R man Mike Alway founded a new imprint, él Records, dedicated to a fragrant, melodic and quintessentially (posh) English yet cosmopolitan style of independent pop. Artists with such colourful names (and music) as The King Of Luxembourg (actually 70s pin-up Simon Turner), Would-Be-Goods, Momus, Louis Philippe, Bad Dream Fancy Dress and even the mighty Felt graced the stylish él label. In recent years, Mike has re-styled él to unveil a treasure trove of cool 50s and early 60s music but the original él recordings from the 1980s are still available for licence.

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Track Of The Week

FOXY FRIENDS

Noosha Fox and friends injected some sophisticated glamour into the UK charts of the mid-1970s. Fox‘s ‘Only You Can’ peaked at No. 3 while ‘S-S-S Single Bed‘ peaked one place lower. ‘If I Point At The Moon’, taken from their 1975 self-titled album, is a lilting, sublime pop ditty that sounds remarkably timeless. The song is featured in the US drama mini-series A Friend Of The Family, which aired recently on the Peacock network.