EG Records
EG Records was an (initially independent) British recording company that existed from 1969 to 1996 and mainly marketed rock music and jazz rock , later also ambient , jazz and alternative .
history
Founders and original operators of the company were David Enthoven (1944-2016) and John Gaydon (* 1944), whose initials also formed the name of the company. The two were initially the managers of King Crimson . They also gave T. Rex , Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and Roxy Music management and record contracts. Gaydon left the company in 1971; Enthoven went in 1977. They were replaced by Sam Alder and Mark Fenwick, who expanded the Editions EG label . It not only relocated the productions of David Bowie and Brian Eno , but also acts like Penguin Cafe Orchestra , Killing Joke , Loose Tubes , Human Chain , Distict Six , Man Jumping , Harvey Mandel , Elan Sicroff , Earthworks or UK . Musicians like Keith Tippett , Iain Ballamy , The Lounge Lizards , Tim Whitehead , Michael Nyman , Jon Hassell and Harold Budd .
The phonograms were distributed by Island Records until 1974 , then (in Europe) by Polydor . Other sales channels were established for the USA. After Alder and Fenwick speculated in 1992, they could no longer hold the label; there were lawsuits with artists like Robert Fripp . EG was initially sold to Virgin Records and continued to operate until Virgin was taken over by the EMI group in 1996 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ David Enthoven, music manager: obituary The Telegraph, August 28, 2016
- ^ EG Planning to Expand US Activities Billboard September 11, 1982, p. 4
- ^ Fripp Sues EG, Music Week , July 3, 1993