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Sir Richard Branson was educated at Stowe until he was 16 years old and he began his entrepreneurial activities there by the setting up of Student Magazine
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╨╧рб▒с > ■ 4 6 ■ 3 ье┴ 5@ Ё┐ 0 % bjbj╧2╧2 (4 нX нX n н И Ъ Ъ Ъ Ъ Ъ Ъ Ъ 8 < H , Х v А А А А А А А А $ R ] Ж : Ъ А А А А А : Ъ Ъ А А O т т т А Ъ А Ъ А т А т т Ї Ъ Ъ Ї А t @╛╛ИрТ╟ А X Ї e 0 Х Ї у ╪ у Ї о 4 т " Ъ Ъ Ъ Ъ у Ъ Ї А А т А А А А А : : т Sir Richard Branson was educated at Stowe until he was 16 years old and he began his entrepreneurial activities there by the setting up of Student Magazine. When he was 17, he opened a Student Advisory Centre, his very first charity institution. Branson set up a record mail order business in 1970, started a record shop in London shortly afterwards and then in 1972 the record label Virgin Records with Nik Powell, opening a recording studio. The company's first issue was multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, which was to be a best-seller. Branson's company also courted controversy by signing bands like the Sex Pistols, whose contract more conventional companies had dispensed with. Virgin also introduced Culture Club to the music world. Later, in 1992, Branson sold the Virgin label to EMI, the conventional company who had rescinded the contract of the Pistols. He later formed V2 Records when re-entering...
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