The high price was likely due to the rare documents and packaging offered in the sale in addition to the computer, including the original packaging ( with the return label showing Steve Jobs ' parents ' address, the original Apple Computer Inc ' headquarters ' being their garage ), a personally typed and signed letter from Jobs ( answering technical questions about the computer ), and the original invoice showing ' Steven ' as the salesman.

After their success with Lisa Stansfield, her label Arista offered Coldcut a deal.

Around 1986, Bill Stephney, the former Program Director at WBAU, was approached by Sam the Assassin and offered a position with the label.

A " Limited Collector's Edition " lenticular cartridge label was offered as the pre-order incentive.

However their version of the song was a hit on US college radio in 1988, which led to the group being offered a major label deal at Uni / MCA.

Another EMI singer Joss Stone is battling the label, and has offered to forfeit £ 2 million ($ 2. 8 million ) in hopes of being released from her contract.

In an interview he gave in January of that year, Page offered his perspective on the label:

Following The October Game's first concert at Dalhousie University opening for Moev, McLachlan was offered a recording contract with Vancouver-based independent record label Nettwerk by Moev's Mark Jowett.

The group were offered a recording contract with the Italian label Dischi Interrecord, and released an eponymous album in January 1967.

The record was popular enough that Atlantic Records offered Leiber and Stoller an independent production contract to produce the Robins for the Atlantic label.

Motown was so impressed by the group's vocals – and Martha's lead vocals in the song – that the label CEO Berry Gordy offered to give the group a contract.

After being invited by violinist Stuff Smith to record the song " Time and Again " in October, Vaughan was offered a contract to record for the Musicraft label by owner Albert Marx, although she would not begin recording as a leader for Musicraft until May 7, 1946.

They were almost straight away offered a deal with the newly established Immediate label, formed by ex-Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham.

The producers promptly placed her with Antonio " L. A ." Reid who offered the singer a contract with his label Arista Records after hearing one song she wrote and sung in front of him and his staff.

New indie label Silvertone Records offered Kember a generous one-off album deal which he accepted.

This company offered the first disc records ( now seven inches in diameter and no longer intended as a toy ) in November 1894 on the Berliner Gramophone label.

Ertegün offered the band " anything you want ", their own subsidiary label and more than $ 10 million just to sign with Atlantic.

The London-based label offered Guru and Premier unlimited artistic license and major-label distribution worldwide, a platform that the group used to become one of the most influential hip hop acts of that decade.

Amazed by her voice, Dallas offered her a record deal with his Arista Records-distributed label Rowdy Records and consulted rapper Queen Latifah to work as Monica's first manager.

" Gitter offered to sign the band to the label and felt that signing Killswitch Engage was the label's last chance to have any heavy metal bands on the roster.

Although they offered a 7-record deal to Sepultura, the label was unsure of the band's sale potential.

After the album's release they were offered a deal with Reprise Records, and they joined the label in 1992.

They were then offered a recording deal by a friend from New York, Walter Schreifels ( Youth of Today, Gorilla Biscuits ) for a recording deal to record for his new sub label of Crisis Records for one studio album, Friendly Green, released in 1992.

In the spring of 1968, Bob Seger & the Last Heard signed with major label Capitol Records, turning down Motown Records, who offered more money than Capitol.

She thought again of her children, those two who had died young, before the later science which might have saved them could attach even a label to their separate malignancies.

DiFranco was one of the first independent artists to own her own label, which has allowed her a considerable degree of creative freedom over the years, including, for example, providing all instrumentals and vocals and recording the album herself at her home on an analog 8-track reel to reel, and handling much of the artwork and packaging design for her 2004 album Educated Guess.

She has referenced this independence from major labels in song more than once, including " The Million You Never Made " ( Not A Pretty Girl ), which discusses the act of turning down a lucrative contract, " The Next Big Thing " ( Not So Soft ), which describes an imagined meeting with a label head-hunter who evaluates the singer based on her looks, and " Napoleon " ( Dilate ), which sympathizes sarcastically with an unnamed friend who did sign with a label.

After leaving the Les Brown & His Band of Renown to try a solo career, she started her long-lasting partnership with Columbia Records, which would remain her only recording label.

The label agreed to let Parton sing country music after her composition, " Put It Off Until Tomorrow ," as recorded by Bill Phillips ( and with Parton, uncredited, on harmony ), went to number six on the country music charts in 1966.

Carangi's sexual orientation has been disputed during and after her life ; LGBT outlets label her lesbian, and other times as bisexual due to her occasional sexual relationships with men.

Sinatra was signed to her father's label, Reprise Records, in 1961.

On June 5, she recorded the single " Hey Joe "/" Piss Factory ", featuring Television guitarist Tom Verlaine ; released on her own Mer Records label, it heralded the scene's do it yourself ( DIY ) ethic and has often been cited as the first punk rock record.

Her relationship with the Capitol label spanned almost three decades, aside from her brief but artistically rich detour ( 1952 – 1956 ) at Decca Records, where in 1956 she recorded one of her most acclaimed albums, Black Coffee.

The decade-long relationship between Robyn and her label ceased in 2004.

In early 2005, she announced she would be leaving Jive Records to start her own record label.

The self-titled debut album was due to be released on September 22, 1992, but was ultimately rejected by her label.

" 100 Miles from Memphis ( released July 20 on A & M Records ), the distance from her hometown to the music mecca, is an ode to her formative memories of music-and one that the label hopes can inspire young music fans to investigate the landscape beyond processed pop and Auto-Tune.

Amos would later reveal that a stimulus for the album was to end her contract with Atlantic without giving them new original songs ; Amos felt that since 1998, the label had not been properly promoting her and had trapped her in a contract by refusing to sell her to another label.

The record label did not have much faith in Lauper as a songwriter, but they gave her the chance to prove herself.

He was taken on at Tubby's as an assistant, performing tasks such as winding transformer coils, and began working as a mixer in the mid-1970s, initially creating dubs of reworked Studio One riddims for Don Mais ' Roots Tradition label, given his chance when Prince Jammy cut short a mixing session for Mais because he was too tired to continue.

The Charlatans returned to San Francisco at the end of summer 1965 and, in September, were given the chance to audition for Autumn Records, a label headed by local DJ, Tom " Big Daddy " Donahue.

The album seemed that it had a chance at being successful, especially with its catchy single " All the Kids Are Right ", but this changed when Polygram, the parent label of Island, merged with Universal, causing the album to be all but forgotten during the transition.

Martin, who was angered by Capitol Records ' stubbornness in turning down The Beatles, and a chance to become their record label in America, later recalled: " I said, for God's sake, do something about this.

Original Cast-Founded by Bruce and Doris Yeko in 1975, this label specialises in recordings of obscure theatrical productions that would not otherwise get the chance to be commercially recorded.

This led to the discovery of Sarah, who was offered a chance by a label ; mainly because of her smoky, enigmatic voice.

The demo got enthusiastic reviews in major metal magazines in Italy and Germany and that gave them the chance to sign with Underground Symphony, a new indie record label.

At 19, Whitfield began frequenting Motown's Hitsville U. S. A. offices for a chance to work for the growing label.

That's where the idea to start the label started, and it was New Beat that gave me the chance.

In 1985 Steve Coleman got the chance for his first recording as a leader ( released by the German label JMT ) and from then on he has recorded extensively ( until 2003, since then less frequently ).

Dawson gave Perry a chance to come up with the name, but he could not remember it, so Dawson finally helped him by saying " You should look through the label with a micro ...".

Paul Roman returned to England, this time with a work permit, but found that his plans with a record label had fallen through to record a solo record. By chance Paul met Ant Thomas, a member of English psychobilly band Demented Are Go, in a laundromat and learned they lived in the same neighbourhood.

Other sub-labels have included Lowell records, which only published local rock, punk, and metal bands from Lowell, Massachusetts ; Statutory Tapes, which reissued music originally published by Kinky Music Institute, G. R. O. S. S, ZSF Tapes, and Beast 666 Tapes ; Pure, a series of low-cost CDs by new and established harsh noise bands, again to encourage listeners to take a chance on what might be a new name ; RRReport, a magazine and CD set that existed for two issues ; Stomach Ache, a collaborative label by Lessard and other unknown participants that published cheap vinyl singles of dubious provenance.

With a small £ 10, 000 budget for the video, it was decided a live video would be released, but the label offered a few up and coming directors the chance to remix some footage or give it a different spin.

The label " really gave us a chance ," Matt Wilson later said:

Although Whitfield did not want to assume the project, he decided to do so, both for financial incentives as well as the chance to give Rose Royce, a disco / funk backing band that Whitfield signed to his own label in 1975, the exposure they needed to become mainstream.