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 having exerted a major influence on the progressive music scene in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s.
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Island Records
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record label
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Universal Music Group
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1959-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1959
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Chris Blackwell
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Graeme Goodall
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Leslie Kong
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Jamaica
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PolyGram
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1989-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1989
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A&M Records
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independent record label
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1970-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1970
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Island Records
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record label
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Island Records
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Chris Blackwell
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Island Records
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Graeme Goodall
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Island Records
MEDIA
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Universal Music Group
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