My time working with EMI Music started with the Duran Duran single, ‘Electric Barbarella’, which used an illustration I’d drawn for a tattoo design which was originally to be sold as merchandise. From there, I ran ‘The Red Room’, EMI’s in-house art department, which worked directly with some of the label’s most illustrious recording artists, including The Beatles, David Bowie, Kate Bush, Brian Eno, The Sex Pistols, blur, and of course, Duran Duran.

Sometimes the job entailed the digitisation and re-origination of revered artwork assets for some of the most legendary recordings in music history. Each one fastidiously restored and preserved for vinyl re-issues, boxsets, ‘Limited Editions’ and new digital formats.

At other times, the job was to create something new for releases across a variety of EMI’s subsidiary labels - Parlophone, $tateside, Chrysalis, Blue Note, Zonophone and Harvest.