Vertigo Records
Vertigo Records, founded 1969: jazz artists and albums on the label.
Vertigo Records is a British record company. It was a subsidiary of the Philips/Phonogram record label, launched in 1969 to specialise in progressive rock and other non-mainstream musical styles. Today, it's operated by Universal Music Germany and the UK catalogue was folded into Mercury Records, which was absorbed in 2013 by Virgin EMI Records, which returned to the EMI Records name in June 2020.
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Artists on Vertigo Records
Label profile
Multinational label. Label Code: LC 1633 / LC 01633
Vertigo was launched by in the UK on 7 November 1969 and quickly adopted by other labels in the global group outside North America.
In 1971, the label was introduced in the US by the Phonogram subsidiary . The label was initially known for releasing many very popular progressive rock albums in the 1970s. Today the label is owned by the .
The original "swirl" logo was based off a work by Marina Apollonio created in 1967. This logo, that remained in use throughout the label's existence, was used as label design between 1969 and 1973, fully adorning the A-side with the complete tracklist on a plain white (or in the case of , black) B-side. In early 1973 the label design was changed to the equally iconic "spaceship" painted by , which appeared in a variety of blues and greens throughout the '70s, plus rare alternate shades in specific European markets. Around 1981 the spaceship design was abandoned for UK releases, though it remained in use elsewhere in Europe, in favour of a more plain design (initially with orange background).
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