The London Records pop label that was established in the UK in 1990, run by Roger Ames, and distributed by PolyGram became part of WEA in 2000 when he was hired to run that company.

PolyGram subsequently trimmed most of Polydor's staff and roster, and shifted it to operate under the umbrella of PolyGram Label Group ( PLG ), a newly constructed ' super label ' specifically designed to oversee the operations of PolyGram's lesser performing imprints ( which included Island Records, London Records, Atlas Records and Verve Records ) at the time.

After British Decca was acquired by PolyGram in 1979, London followed a more independent course with subsidiary labels such as Slash, Pete Tong's Essential Records and FFRR.

Universal Music Group ( the owner of American Decca ) acquired PolyGram in 1998 ; however, by this time, London Records had become a semi-independent label within the PolyGram group operated by Roger Ames.

After PolyGram took over British Decca, classical-music albums recorded by British Decca continued to be released on the London label in the U. S., with a logo similar to the Decca classical label logo, until American Decca owner MCA Records bought British Decca owner PolyGram in 1998, which formed Universal Music, after which they were all reissued on the original British Decca label in the U. S.

* O Boso ( 1973 ) London / PolyGram Records

Its roster of labels by this time included: Polydor, Mercury, London, London / FFRR, Casablanca ( until 1986, later to be reincarnated in 1994 ), RSO, De-Lite, Riva, Threshold ( owned by The Moody Blues ), Tin Pan Alley ( under Polydor ), and Atlanta Artists ( founded by Cameo lead singer Larry Blackmon ) all consolidated into PolyGram Records, Inc.

Working Title, Mentorn, Palace and PolyGram wanted to take over from London Weekend Television and broadcast to London under the name London Independent Broadcasting.

They released their first single, " Love Don't Work This Way ", on U2's Mother Records label, which quickly led to a deal with the PolyGram subsidiary London Records.

Universal Music Group ( the owner of American Decca ) was formed through the merger of the MCA and PolyGram Records families, the latter of which owned London Records, in 2000 and closed Slash as an active label.

Casablanca Records had been releasing fewer records in the 1980s, and was shut down in 1986 by parent company PolyGram.

He went to several record companies, including Atlantic Records and Mercury ( PolyGram ), but they all turned him down.

After considerable success on Exit / A & M, The 77s soon found themselves signed to Island Records ( which, like A & M would be bought by PolyGram in 1989 ) and on the road to what Mike Roe would refer facetiously as " teenage stardom.

In Taiwan, PolyGram acquired 60 % of Linfair Magnetic Sound ( founded in 1961 ) in 1992, and renamed to Decca Records Taiwan.

During this time, Justin Hayward and John Lodge wrote and sang on most of the songs as the band came under pressure from their new record company, PolyGram Records, to promote those it deemed to be the two more commercial-looking and-sounding members.

PolyGram took over the catalogue, and the Allman Brothers Band signed to Arista Records.

Styx toured across the U. S. in the spring and summer of 1991, but despite the success of the album, a top 3 single and a top 25 single, the band was dropped after A & M Records was purchased by PolyGram Records.

Gordy relocated Motown Records to Los Angeles in 1972 and there it remained an independent company until June 28, 1988, when Gordy sold the company to MCA and Boston Ventures ( which took over full ownership of Motown in 1991 ), then to PolyGram in 1994, before being sold again to MCA Records ' successor Universal Music Group, when it acquired The PolyGram Group.

This label ( including its roster and catalog ) was folded into Verve Records after the PolyGram / Universal merger.

In November 1988, the band signed to PolyGram subsidiary Mercury Records and quickly set about recording their debut EP.

As part of its contract PolyGram also created the Stardog Records imprint exclusively for the band.

Motown Records was bought in 1988 ( and sold to PolyGram in 1993 ).

Motown Records was bought in 1988 ( and sold to PolyGram in 1993 ).

Polydor had opened a US division in 1969, but did not become a real presence in the US record industry until its purchase of the recording contract and back catalog of R & B superstar James Brown in 1971 and its absorption of the MGM Records label by parent company PolyGram in 1972.

In 1972, Polydor merged with giant Philips-owned Phonogram Records to create PolyGram in the US.

Into the 1980s, Polydor continued to do respectable business, in spite of becoming increasingly overshadowed by its PolyGram sister label Mercury Records.

Other artists signed to the label would include Rhett Akins, Gary Allan, Mark Chesnutt, and Lee Ann Womack ; of these, all but Sears would be shifted to the MCA Nashville roster after parent Universal Music absorbed PolyGram in 1998 and shut down Decca Nashville.

The Decca label is currently in use by Universal Music Group worldwide ; this is possible because Universal Studios ( which officially dropped the MCA name after the Seagram buyout in 1997 ) acquired PolyGram, British Decca's parent company in 1998, thus consolidating Decca trademark ownership.

Ironically, Seagram had purchased Motown ’ s former parent MCA in 1995, as such Motown was in effect reunited with many of its MCA corporate siblings ( Seagram had, in fact, hoped to build a media empire around Universal, and started by purchasing PolyGram ).

The present organization was formed when its parent company Seagram purchased PolyGram and merged it with Universal Music Group in 1998.

Kerkorian soon expanded the company, purchasing Orion Pictures, The Samuel Goldwyn Company and Motion Picture Corporation of America from John Kluge's Metromedia in 1998, and a majority to the pre-1996 PolyGram Filmed Entertainment from its parent Philips, which was in process to sell PolyGram to Seagram.

It did not survive the distribution transition its parent made to PolyGram Records, and all of its recordings were deleted, save for those by Organized Konfusion, which were repressed under the new deal.

It is the only album of all-new material released by them on the Universal Music label ( which had acquired the rights to the group's releases on Polydor Records when they bought that label's parent PolyGram ).

This remained so, even after the 1998 mega-merger with parent Universal Music Group and PolyGram ( which incidentally was Island's parent by that time ) and being put under the fold of the Verve Music Group, continuing to be Verve's imprint for non-jazz releases.

In 1999, during the consolidation of Geffen ’ s Universal Music Group parent and PolyGram, the DGC label ceased operations.

In 1986, the label was revived by Mercury's parent company PolyGram and, just before its final fade, the label enjoyed a brief success with then new R & B singers Vanessa Williams, Female R & B trio Lace, R & B band Tony, Toni, Tone, brother-sister duo Channel 2, and Brian McKnight.

At an October 1997 deposition hearing, Eric Kronfeld, president and chief operating officer of Island's parent company PolyGram, was asked why he had hired such an individual.

It was launched in 1988, but it was shut down in 1990, shortly after its parent was purchased by PolyGram Records.

The company was dismantled, and absorbed into A & M Records, in early 1999 — per the merger of A & M's PolyGram parent and Universal Music Group.

Geffen ( at the time distributed by Atlantic sister label Warner Bros. Records ) re-issued the album in 1983 after Mercury's distribution rights to the album lapsed, and has marketed it in the U. S. since ( coincidentally, Mercury is now sister label to Geffen after Mercury's parent PolyGram merged with Geffen's parent Universal Music Group in 1999 ).

These releases disappeared from store shelves after Island's parent company PolyGram was absorbed by Universal Music.