Until he contacted Mr. Bush on behalf of an anonymous buyer, Mr. Smith said in an interview this week, he could not find anyone willing to sell, either.
It was not until he contacted her that he managed to get through to Ms. Love, whose approval he needed to get the rights to three Nirvana songs by her husband, Kurt Cobain, who killed himself in 1994.
Every time Z-Tel tried to place an order, it would be rejected, he said, adding that Ameritech did not respond to Z-Tel's complaints until he contacted the president of the wholesale division.
In the meantime you reported the case of a passenger who had been on the same flight and had receievd the same response from Thomson until he contacted the Guardian, whereupon Thomson "reviewed" his case, and paid him the €800 due to him and his companion.
That is, until he contacted police in Montpelier recently and allegedly confessed to killing Declan Lyons.
Callier earned a living by playing gigs in New York and Chicago until he was contacted by Butler in 1970 and recruited to his salaried group of songwriters.
At the time Nick Clegg, the then Lib Dem leader, said that was silly, and Carmichael said he did not know anything about the matter until he was contacted by a journalist.
He had no idea Koji had been but one of numerous school judo casualties until he was contacted months later by Yasuhiko Kobayashi, whose son had been badly hurt doing judo at school.
The former Army spy did not know his emails, photographs, banking and other online activities had been compromised until he was contacted by journalists from BBC's Panorama programme in December 2010, almost five years later.
