Island Records
Island Records is a British-Jamaican record label owned by Universal Music Group. It was founded in 1959 by Chris Blackwell, Graeme Goodall, and Leslie Kong in Jamaica, and was eventually sold to PolyGram in 1989. Island and A&M Records, another label recently acquired by PolyGram, were both at the time the largest independent record labels in history, with Island in particular having exerted a major influence on the progressive music scene in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s.
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| Founded | 1959
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| Distributor | Self-distributed (U.S.)
Virgin EMI/Island UK (UK) Universal (International) Mercury Music Group/Island France/Barclay (France) |
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