That led to four years with the station in question before making a new year's resolution for the new millennium to try out everything she had learned on a bigger scale - and she moved to the UK in 2000 armed with twosuitcases and a demo tape.
The rivalry between the two retail giants would make a book in itself, with Branson turning up with suitcases of cash to try and gazump HMV for prime city centre shop locations.