Megaforce co-founder Jon Zazula left the label 18 years ago, but he's revisiting its history in a new autobiography.
From left: Metallica’s James Hetfield, Anthrax’s Scott Ian, Jon Zazula , and Metallica’s Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and Cliff Burton in London in 1983.
When Jon and Marsha Zazula started selling vinyl imports and picture discs at a New Jersey flea market in 1981, they had no aspirations of founding a record label. The then-recently married couple’s goal was modest: Make a profit on $180 worth of inventory, which was all they had. But one day, a customer brought by a demo cassette ofand insisted Jon play it on the spot. Jon obliged, and his plans became much loftier: Get Metallica signed.
After he was turned down by every label he approached, Jon decided to start his own; in 1982, he and Marsha co-founded Megaforce Records, which became the imprint for a handful of now-iconic heavy metal acts. “Once I started working with music, I knew all the answers,” says Jon. “It was like a jigsaw puzzle, and I kept finding the right pieces.
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