History
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1970 - The Orange Beach Buggy
Cliff Cooper – Founder & CEO I’ve always considered eye-catching cars to be a very good and engaging way to promote and advertise your brand. The Orange Beach Buggy soon became a well known sight around London. Beach buggies were...
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1969 - Orange Management
A good manager is someone who knows when to say ‘no’, and really cares about the artists’ personal well-being. Cliff Cooper – Founder & CEO I’d heard about this massive talent in the North East called John Miles. I went...
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1969 - Orange Agency
Being able to perform well on stage ensures longevity of record sales Cliff Cooper – Founder & CEO By forming the Orange Agency, my plan was to string together the other music-related activities we had already started. There were some...
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1969 - Launch of Orange Records
Cliff Cooper – Founder & CEO Orange Records was launched when I realised that a lot of very talented musicians were coming to the Orange Studios to record demos, but were finding it difficult to secure a record deal. These...
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1969 - Manufacturing Orange before Bexleyheath and Cooper Mathias, LTD
More than forty years on, many Orange and Matamp enthusiasts are mistakenly under the impression that ‘Orange Matamp’ was an amp manufacturer co-owned by Cliff Cooper and Mat Mathias. The black name-plates on the back of the very early amps...
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1969 - The Orange Comic Strips
In early 1969, we introduced cartoon comic strip advertising, which was very successful and after a short time, attracted a devoted following – many fans actually wrote to us with their own ideas for the cartoons. They had a tongue-in-cheek...
