https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sNQrpL7IaU
From Millie to the Spencer Davis Group the music kept coming

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Chris Peers - the making of Island Records. Oh dear this has turned into one of those weeks as I am sorry to see reports that Chris Peers has just left us. We filmed him a few years ago now in a home in Henley where he spent a lot of time recounting starting Island Records with Chris Blackwell and the nature of the music business way back then.

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/50-years-island-records-online/
Published on. August 24, 2017. By. Tim Peacock. Originally produced to coincide with the label's 50th anniversary in 2009, the BBC's feature length documentary Keep On Running: 50 Years Of

https://thevinylfactory.com/news/island-records-documentary-50th-anniversary-bbc/
"The most diverse and influential independent record label in history." Produced to coincide with the label's 50th anniversary in 2009, the BBC's feature-length documentary Keep On Running: 50 Years Of Island Records has been uploaded to YouTube and is available to watch online for the first time.. Watch next: Pressing Matters in Jamaica - a film about the island's forgotten record

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Storey began working on The Island Book of Records in earnest in 2007. The volumes focus on Island Records' analog era beginning in 1959, and ending, coincidentally, when the label was sold to

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Island Records is a Jamaican multinational 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

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The book marks the first volume in a project that will seek to "represent the entire analogue compendium of Island's records from 1959 to when Chris Blackwell sold the label in 1989", with

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/island-the-record-label-that-changed-the-world-1676691.html
Chris Blackwell didn't exactly have a master-plan when he founded Island Records with £1,000 in 1959. Thirty years on, he sold the company to PolyGram for $300 million.

https://letterboxd.com/film/keep-on-running-50-years-of-island-records/
Both of these films are produced by Island Films, the movie arm of Chris Blackwell's Island Records, so I watched this BBC Four documentary by Stuart Watts in preparation. The opening montage reminds you there is far more to Island than just popularising reggae outside Jamaica - they signed everyone from U2 to PJ Harvey, the Sugababes to The

https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2010/12/18/132146633/chris-blackwell-reflects-on-50-years-at-island-records
A new book, The Story of Island Records, is filled with essays and memorable album artwork. Chris Blackwell, Island's founder, tells Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon that the role of

https://www.spin.com/2023/10/the-ultimate-history-of-island-records-has-finally-arrived-vol-1-anyway/
The volumes number at four (so far) with each one chronicling 100 Island Records releases. The first volume, The Island Book of Records Volume I: 1959-1968, arrives this month via Manchester

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Chris Blackwell. Christopher Percy Gordon Blackwell OJ (born 22 June 1937) [1] is a Jamaican-British former record producer and the founder of Island Records, [2] which has been called "one of Britain's great independent labels." [3] According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, to which Blackwell was inducted in 2001, he is "the single person

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Chris Peers - the making of Island Records Oh dear this has turned into one of those weeks as I am sorry to see reports that Chris Peers has just left us. We filmed him a few years ago now in a home in Henley where he spent a lot of time recounting starting Island Records with Chris Blackwell and the nature of […]

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/08/1103687612/island-records-founder-chris-blackwell-looks-back-on-his-life-in-music
Blackwell grew up in Jamaica, and, as the head of Island Records, helped launch the careers of reggae stars like Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff, as well as rock bands like U2. His memoir is The Islander.

https://thevinylfactory.com/features/take-a-look-at-a-book-chronicling-the-albums-of-island-records/
The Island Book of Records (1959-1968) has been edited by Island's former head of press, Neil Storey, and is the first volume of a collection that will dive into the entirety of Island's records. Each album in the book is illustrated with labels, booklets, die-cut covers and foreign editions.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2009/mar/23/island-records-fifty-simon-reynolds
Island's big Five-O got me thinking about what makes certain record labels iconic. It's clearly something to do with a flexible A&R policy that still manages to be coherent, held together by a

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/09/arts/music/chris-blackwell-the-islander.html
In a new memoir, the 84-year-old founder of Island Records reflects on helping bring the music of Bob Marley, U2 and Grace Jones to the world. ... It wasn't about Chris Blackwell making a hit

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Island Records Founder Chris Blackwell Talks Bob Marley, U2, and His Fascinating Memoir, 'The Islander'. While he hasn't been active in the music world for a couple of decades, Chris

https://repeatingislands.com/2022/06/09/island-records-founder-chris-blackwell-talks-the-islander/
Here are excerpts from "Island Records Founder Chris Blackwell Talks Bob Marley, U2, and His Fascinating Memoir, 'The Islander,'" by Jem Aswad ().While he hasn't been active in the music world for a couple of decades, Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records, is indisputably one of the greatest record executives in history.The list of artists that the company spawned under his

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The history of Island began with a jazz album made in Jamaica. In 1959 - the same year as Berry Gordy was putting together his fledgling Tamla label in Detroit - a young, Jamaican-based Englishman, Chris Blackwell, released an album of jazz standards by blind Bermudan singer and pianist Lance Hayward called At The Half Moon Hotel, Montego Bay.

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The Oxfordshire village of Aston Tirrold has an unusual distinction. Despite its last-recorded population being only 373, it features in two extraordinary heavyweight tomes, the Domesday Book (1086) and The Island Book of Records (2023)…. Neil Storey, formerly the head of press at Island Records, took on the Herculean task of editing Volume

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When complete, the individual #IBoR volumes will represent the entire compendium of Island LP records which began when Lance Haywood at Half Moon was released in 1959 to when Chris Blackwell sold to what is now Universal in 1989. Each volume will be issued as a limited edition to a maximum of 1500 individually hand-numbered copies.

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From its beginnings bringing Jamaican music to a broader stage, Island Records has brought a global audience to the works of Bob Marley, U2, Cat Stevens, Steve Winwood, John Martyn, and Nick Drake among many others. Mixing cultures and influences from reggae to pop, hip hop, and punk, Island has shaken up artistic tastes and introduced new categories to mainstream music.