Mark Rye obituary

My friend Mark Rye, who has died suddenly aged 66, devoted his working life to the music business, starting as a radio-plugger before helping to run the Harvest record label and managing the pop-rock duo Marshall Hain. He continued as a distributor, author and archivist until his death.In 2003 Mark started the website RockHistory, when the death of Pink Floyd’s manager Steve O’Rourke made him realise that memories from the golden age of British music were disappearing. The site hosts