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Mott The Hoople are perhaps known to all music fans, but what of their story? The Ballad of Mott the Hoople is a feature-length documentary telling the bruised and battered, but triumphant, tale of one of the UK's most cherished rock 'n' roll bands, including rare and unseen archive footage.

When I started work at Polydor in the early '70s, it was a dream come true. I'd worked at HMV records in Oxford Street for five years, and was bored with working in a shop, even though it was the biggest in Europe. Laurie Adams, who was Polydor's Tape Marketing Manager, turned up unexpectedly and took me out to lunch.