simon napier-bell's account confirms that it was meek who gave stigwood the idea of making records independently, then getting the record company to distribute for them in return for a percentage of the selling price. it was, as napier-bell observes, "the music business equivalent of the independent film production that had changed the face of hollywood". excited by the idea, stigwood gave meek £100 to make leyton's first record, but when it was completed meek was reluctant to hawk the tape to the record companies himself, so stigwood took on the task.