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Polydor Records was founded on 2 April 1913 by German Polyphon-Musikwerke AG in Leipzig and registered on 25 July 1914 (Nr. 316613). The label was founded as Firma Brachhausen & Riesener in 1887 by Gustav Adolf Brachhausen and Ernst Paul Riessner, for manufacturing their new mechanical disc-playing music box Polyphon, invented in 1870. [3]
Spring Records was an American record label established in New York City in 1967. It was formed out of an artist and production management company set up earlier by Bill Spitalsky, Roy Rifkind and Jules "Julie" Rifkind. The label name came from their surnames, "Sp" for Spitalsky and "ri" for Rifkind. [1] It was associated with the Polydor group ...
PolyGram N.V. was a multinational major music record label and entertainment company formerly based in the Netherlands.It was founded in 1962 as the Grammophon-Philips Group by Dutch corporation Philips and German corporation Siemens, to be a holding for their record companies, and was renamed "PolyGram" in 1972.
A&M Records is an American record label founded as an independent company by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in late 1962. Due to the success of the discography A&M released, the label garnered interest and was acquired by PolyGram in 1989 and began distributing releases from Polydor Ltd. from the UK.
Edgar Bronfman Jr. celebrating Ralph Lauren's 40th Anniversary at the Conservancy Garden, Central Park, New York City, 2007 Edgar M. Bronfman Jr., is the son of Edgar Bronfman Sr. , the billionaire businessman and longtime president of the World Jewish Congress who died aged 84 in 2013. [ 21 ]
By 1980, PolyGram consolidated all of its U.S. operations, Phonogram, Inc. Mercury Records, RSO, Casablanca and Polydor Records and associated labels into PolyGram Records and it was based in New York City. Under the new company, PolyGram decided to discontinue Philips as a pop and rock label in the UK and throughout much of Europe, though it ...
All Time Low (Polydor UK) The Amboy Dukes; Thomas Anders; Jon Anderson; Angels and Airwaves (Polydor UK) Die Antwoord (Polydor UK) Paul Anka; Army of Lovers (Polydor UK) Art of Noise (China/Polydor) Appleton; Asia; Athlete (Polydor UK) Atlanta Rhythm Section; Audience; Audioslave (Polydor UK, shared with Sony Music Entertainment) The Automatic ...
Fiction Records was founded in the late 1970s by Polydor A&R man, and longtime The Cure manager Chris Parry, [3] alongside music publisher Fiction Songs Ltd, and who went on to found Radio X (then XFM) and both were subsidiaries of Polydor Records, and based in London at 97 Charlotte Street and eventually maintained a satellite office in New York City at 850 7th Ave. Fiction was also home to ...