Island Records
Island Records
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Island Records is a British record label that operates as a division of Universal Music Group (UMG). It was founded by Chris Blackwell, Graeme Goodall and Leslie Kong in Jamaica in 1959. Blackwell sold the label to PolyGram in 1989. Both Island and another label recently acquired by PolyGram, A&M Records, were both at the time the largest independent record labels in history, with Island, in particular, having exerted a major influence on the progressive UK music scene in the early 1970s.
Three Island labels exist in the Island UK, Island US, and Island Australia, with the main label operating out of London. In a 50-year anniversary documentary, Island Records artist Melissa Etheridge
If you want to look at world music, music of the last fifty years that changed the world, you need look no further than Island Records.