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Martin Mills is an advocate for independent labels. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] In 2011, The Guardian named him #22 in their "Music Power 100" list. [ 14 ] In 2012, he testified against the Universal Music Group-EMI merger at the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust Competition Policy and Consumer Rights hearing. [ 15 ]
Mills grew up near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire and comes from an "upper-middle-class English family". [1] His father worked as a civil servant and his mother was a teacher and headmistress. Mills attended Magdalen College School and Oriel College, Oxford University, where he studied Philosophy, politics and economics, graduating in 1970. [2]
He promoted his copper-distilled Miller's Pure Old Bourbon Whiskey both by making an annual pilgrimage to New Orleans. [ 7 ] In November 1856, Miller purchased three acres of land on Stoner Creek in Bourbon County from a Cincinnati land speculator named David Gibson and his wife Sarah for $1,600 [ 8 ] and an additional lot owned by Noah and ...
It wasn't long ago that bourbon, the house drink of the South, was considered bottom shelf.After Prohibition, once-prosperous distilleries were left to crumble into Kentucky's rolling, horse ...
A limited number of Pappy Van Winkle 23-year, produced by Old Rip Van Winkle Distillery of Frankfort, Kentucky, goes to each state. As bourbon booms, thirst for rare brands breeds skullduggery ...
The craft spirits maker, who brought the first working distillery back to Lexington in 50 years, recently broke ground on a second site.
In 1977, spurred by the prevailing DIY aesthetics of the British punk rock movement (then at the height of its popularity), Martin Mills and Nick Austin founded a record label to release records under the Beggars Banquet imprint. [1]
The startup distillery, led by 8th Generation Master Distiller Jacob Call, broke ground in November 2022 and filled its first barrel of bourbon whiskey on July 19, 2023. The distillery is not yet ...