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Vertigo Records is a record company which originated in the UK. It was a subsidiary of the Philips/Phonogram record label, launched in 1969 to specialise in progressive rock and other non-mainstream musical styles.[1] Today it is operated by Universal Music UK.
History
Origins
Vertigo was the brainchild of Olav Wyper[1] when he 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'. The first Vertigo releases came with a distinctive black and white spiral label, which was eventually replaced with Roger Dean's infamous spaceship design in 1973.[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).
Album Discography[4]
- 1969
- 1970
- 1971
- 1972
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- 6360 607 Agitation Free - Malesch
- 6360 608 Odin - Odin
- 6360 610 Tiger B. Smith - Tiger Rock
- 6360 700 Jim Croce - You Don't Mess Around with Jim
- 6360 800 The Fabulous Rhinestones - the Fabulous Rhinestones
- 6360 850 Pantheon - Orion
- 6641 055 Peter Michael Hamel - Hamel
- 6641 077 Kraftwerk - Kraftwerk
- 6673 001 Aphrodite's Child - 666
- 6830 067 V/A - New Vertigo Popular Material
- FX 8602 Miki Curtis - The First Ear[Japan]
- FX 8603 Flied Egg - Dr. Siegel's Fried Egg Shooting Machine[Japan]
- FX 8605 Pico - ABC First
- FX 8606 Flied Egg - Goodbye
- FX 8607 Gypsy Blood - Gypsy Blood
- FX 8698 Katsumi Kahashi - Paris 2
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- 1973
- 1974
- 1975
- 1976
- 1977
- 1978
- 1979
1980
- 1981
- 1982
- 1983
- 1984
- 1985
- 1986
- 1987
- 1988
- 1989
1990's
- 2000's
- 2010's
References
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- ↑ Not comprehensive. More titles can be found by typing in "Vertigo" at discogs.com. Most Cat No.'s are for original releases in UK and/or Europe. Sources:(A)discogs.com. (B)Category: Vertigo Records albums(Wiki article). (C)rateyourmusic.com/list/alabaster/record_label_list_1_vertigo. Retrieved May 2015.
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- ↑ For most countries ouside the UK. UK release on WWA
- ↑ World outside of UK
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