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Vertigo Records
Parent companyUniversal Music Group
Founded1969
StatusActive
Distributor(s)Universal Music UK
GenreHard rock, progressive rock, pop soul, heavy metal, glam metal (import bands)
Country of originUK
Official websitevertigorecords.co.uk

Vertigo Records was a subsidiary of the Philips/Phonogram record label, launched in 1969 in the UK to specialise in prog rock and other non-mainstream musical styles.[1] Today it is a label operated by Universal Music UK.

History

Origins

Vertigo was the brainchild of Gerry Bron, Tony Reeves and Olav Wyper[1] when the latter was Creative Director at Phonogram. It was launched as a competitor to labels such as Harvest (a prog subsidiary of EMI) and Deram (Decca). It was the home to bands such as Colosseum, Jade Warrior, Affinity, Ben and other bands from 'the "cutting edge" of the early-'70s British prog-folk-post-psych circuit'.[2]

More Recently

Vertigo later became the European home to various hard rock bands signed to Mercury in North America, such as Bon Jovi, Rush and Kiss. Now part of the Universal Music Group, Vertigo is a division of Mercury Music Group/Virgin EMI Records (UK), which in turn is a frontline music group operation of Universal Music UK. It distributes Cooking Vinyl (Germany), Metallica (outside the US and Canada), Razorlight, Rush (Europe) and Dire Straits (except the US). More recent signings include The Rapture, The Killers (UK/Éire), One Night Only, Amy Macdonald, Noisettes and Thee Unstrung 2004-2005 and Kassidy[3] in 2009. Black Sabbath have returned to the label in 2013 (including the US and Canada for the first time via sister label Republic) although former sister label Sanctuary Records Group had acquired international rights to their back catalogue in the interim (the band were last on Vertigo in 1987).

Discography

Alternate logo used in Canada.

Albums

References

  1. ^ a b "Vertigo UK". Retrieved 2013-00-16. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  2. ^ "Review of Time Machine: A Vertigo Retrospective". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 2013-00-16. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  3. ^ "Kassidy". Myspace.com. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
  4. ^ "Unknown; possibly the original catalog number of Ancient Grease's Women and Children First album, which was eventually released on Mercury". Vertigoswirl.com. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
  5. ^ a b "vertigoarg". Vertigoswirl.com. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
  6. ^ "vertigouklp3". Vertigoswirl.com. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
  7. ^ "vertigobra". Vertigoswirl.com. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
  8. ^ "vertigouklp4". Vertigoswirl.com. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
  9. ^ a b "vertigoperu". Vertigoswirl.com. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
  10. ^ "vertigoDLP1". Vertigoswirl.com. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
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