With three million people unemployed, racists on the march, riots in the inner cities and the police Special Patrol Group (SPG) breaking heads on the…
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Trumpeter/producer Herb Alpert and producer/promoter Jerry Moss founded their famous record label in 1962 with a $200 investment, using the initials of their surnames to…
From 1968 to 1982, studio-based musicians in the employ of Pickwick Records in Britain mimicked everyone from The Sex Pistols to Roxy Music. Eight albums were issued…
Following the death of their manager Brian Epstein, The Beatles launched the Apple Corps organisation in January 1968, which comprised a London boutique, an arts foundation,…
Arista Records was founded in 1975 by legendary music executive Clive Davis. After being fired from CBS Records, Davis – known as “The Man with…
Atlantic Records has introduced the world to some of the most influential musicians this planet has ever produced; Jazz icons such as John Coltrane, Charles…
Brothers Leonard and Phil Chess immigrated to America in 1928 from Poland. In 1947 they bought out Aristocrat Records in Chicago, which they renamed Chess.…
Kids today want designer names, the genuine thing. But in the 1950s and 1960s when money was in short supply, they were happy to buy…
Factory was founded in 1978 by Granada TV presenter Tony Wilson, band manager and unemployed actor Alan Erasmus, graphic designer Peter Saville (who designed all…
Launched by EMI in mid-1969, Harvest Records was a microcosm of the huge musical range of the exploding “underground music” scene at the turn of…
With an $800 loan from his family and a roster of unknown young Detroit singers, former record shop owner Berry Gordy Jnr (pictured below) started what…
After starting his musical career as one of The Most Brothers, Mickie Most graduated to become one of the world’s leading record producers and pop…
A music-obsessed Cambridge graduate, Geoff Travis hitch-hiked across America in his mid-twenties, where he picked up “literally hundreds of records by the time I got to…
Founded in an old movie theatre in Memphis (originally as a country/pop label called Satellite Records) by Jim Stewart and Estelle Axton, Stax – made…
Memorably described by Pete Waterman as “a crepe soles and roll-ups operation” Stiff Records was set up by industry managers Jake Riviera and Dave Robinson…
In the late 1980s the pop charts were awash with songs written and produced by Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman. They worked with…
Producer Trevor Horn was half of the duo Buggles, who topped the charts with Video Killed the Radio Star, before he created ZTT Records with…