La-La-Land

Ira, our manager, used to run an agency in America in the 70s that was responsible for taking the first wave of British rock music to America. So the first bands they broke in America were people like Rod Stewart and the Faces. Then years later in the 80s he’d moved from the East Coast to the West Coast, and was living in LA and managing bands. I don’t know how he came to hear of us but we went to meet him. He liked us, he became our manager and he kept putting us in touch with different songwriters and people to work with. So we started working with some of them, and off the back of what we’d done in India as Lea Hart and the Rollups, we then finally became Ya Ya. Ira started touting us around in America and signed us to a record company called Scotti Brothers. It was two brothers, proper American Italian boys. We used to call them Mafia Records, for obvious reasons.