In an interview in this week's mag, Waterman remembers the Atlantic Records founder visiting the PWL label and finding it hard to leave again.

"He came into my office at PWL right at the height of it all," he says. "He came with Rob Dickins and we played them a bunch of stuff."

"We were in quite a rickety building and there was no gloss. He rang me later on to ask if he could come back to sit in ...