ABSTRACT
This chapter begins by introducing two specific companies, one of which is Cream; it then positions those companies in relation to commercial music production in Liverpool and Merseyside, and global and genre-based business networks. It continues to examine the relationship between music and the city by focusing on the business of music in Liverpool. The chapter considers what it has suggested about the impact of locality and social and economic change upon music business activities, networks and discourses, and about how the local, urban setting of the music businesses mattered to the people involved. It also considered various ways in which their Liverpool setting had influenced the commercial networks of local music-makers and their music- and business-related practices. The case material on Cream and LMH has highlighted the breadth and diversity of the music business in Liverpool during the 1980s and 1990s, and its position within local, national and global networks of production and distribution.
