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Demon Music Group, the Glossary

Demon Music Group Limited (DMG; formerly Object Enterprises Limited from 19821991 and Music Collection International Limited from 19912000) is a record company owned by BBC Studios that is mainly concerned with back-catalogue rights and re-issuing recordings as compilations on physical media (CDs and vinyl) via supermarkets and specialist stores.^[1]

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Ace Records (United States)

Ace Records was a record label that was started in August 1955 in Jackson, Mississippi by Johnny Vincent, with Teem Records as its budget subsidiary.

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Alexander O'Neal

Alexander O'Neal (born November 15, 1953) is an American R&B singer, songwriter and arranger from Natchez, Mississippi. O'Neal came to prominence in the mid-1980s as a solo artist, with eleven Top 40 singles on the US R&B chart, three of which also reached the Top 40 of the ''Billboard'' Hot 100.

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Andrew Lauder (music executive)

Andrew Lauder (born 1947, Hartlepool, County Durham, England) is a record company executive and former A&R manager.

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Ant & Dec

Ant & Dec are a British television presenting duo consisting of Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly from Newcastle upon Tyne.

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Artists and repertoire

Artists and repertoire (or A&R for short) is the division of a record label or music publishing company that is responsible for scouting and overseeing the artistic development of recording artists and songwriters.

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Average White Band

The Average White Band (also known as AWB) are a Scottish funk and R&B band that had a series of soul and disco hits between 1974 and 1980.

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Bananarama

Bananarama are an English pop group formed in London in 1980.

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BBC Studios

BBC Studios Limited is a British content company.

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Belinda Carlisle

Belinda Jo Carlisle (born August 17, 1958) is an American singer and songwriter.

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Blur (band)

Blur are an English rock band formed in London in 1988.

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Bros (British band)

Bros are an English band formed in 1986 in Camberley, Surrey.

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Cherrelle

Cheryl Anne Norton (born October 13, 1958), better known by her stage name Cherrelle, is an American R&B singer and songwriter who gained fame in the mid-1980s.

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Companies House

Companies House is the executive agency of the British Government that maintains the register of companies, employs the company registrars and is responsible for incorporating all forms of companies in the United Kingdom.

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Compilation album

A compilation album comprises tracks, which may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one performer or by several performers.

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Daniel O'Donnell

Daniel Francis Noel O'Donnell, MBE (born 12 December 1961) is an Irish singer, television presenter and philanthropist.

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Department S (band)

Department S are a British post-punk/new wave band formed in 1980, who took their name from the 1960s TV series Department S. They are best known for their debut single, "Is Vic There?", which was originally released in December 1980 and reached No.

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Dog Trumpet

Dog Trumpet, originally known as Reg & Peter's Dog Trumpet, is an Australian rock band, founded in 1990 by brothers Reg Mombassa (aka Chris O'Doherty) and Peter O'Doherty, original members of Australian new wave and pop rock band Mental As Anything.

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Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show

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Elvis Costello

Declan Patrick MacManus (born 25 August 1954), known professionally as Elvis Costello, is an English singer, songwriter, record producer, author and television presenter.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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F-Beat Records

F-Beat Records was a record label set up by Andrew Lauder and Jake Riviera in 1979. Demon Music Group and f-Beat Records are pop record labels.

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Faith No More

Faith No More is an American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1979.

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Foster and Allen

Foster and Allen are a musical duo from Ireland consisting of Mick Foster and Tony Allen.

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Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century.

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Glen Matlock

Glen Matlock (born 27 August 1956) is an English musician, best known for being the bass guitarist in the original line-up of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols.

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Graham Parker

Graham Thomas Parker (born 18 November 1950) is an English singer-songwriter, who is best known as the lead singer of the British band Graham Parker & the Rumour.

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Green on Red

Green on Red was an American rock band, formed in the Tucson, Arizona punk scene, but based for most of its career in Los Angeles, California, where it was loosely associated with the Paisley Underground.

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Hi Records

Hi Records is an American soul music and rockabilly label founded in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1957 by singer Ray Harris, record store owner Joe Cuoghi, Bill Cantrell and Quinton Claunch (formerly producers for Sun Records), and three silent partners, including Cuoghi's lawyer, Nick Pesce.

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Ian Dury

Ian Robins Dury (12 May 1942 27 March 2000) was an English singer, songwriter and actor who rose to fame in the late 1970s, during the punk and new wave era of rock music.

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Is Vic There?

"Is Vic There?" is a song by post-punk band Department S, released by Demon Records on 29 December 1980.

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Island Records

Island Records is a Jamaican multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group. Demon Music Group and Island Records are British record labels.

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Jake Riviera

Jake Riviera (born Andrew Jakeman, February 1948, in Edgware, Middlesex, England) is a British music business entrepreneur, best known for his management of such performers as Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe and as co-founder (with Dave Robinson) of the pioneering British indie label, Stiff Records.

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Jane McDonald

Jane Anne McDonald (born 4 April 1963) is an English singer and television presenter.

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Johnny Cash

John R. Cash (born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter.

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Let's Get Ready to Rhumble

"Let's Get Ready to Rhumble" is a 1994 song by PJ & Duncan AKA, the performing name used by British duo Ant & Dec at the time.

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Lists of record labels

File:Alvinoreyguitarboogie.jpg File:AmMusicBunk78.jpg File:Bingola1011b.jpg Lists of record labels cover record labels, brands or trademarks associated with marketing of music recordings and music videos.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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M People

M People (stylised as MPeople) is an English dance music band that formed in 1990 and achieved success throughout most of the 1990s.

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Marc Almond

Peter Mark "Marc" Almond (born 9 July 1957) is an English singer best known from the synth-pop/new wave duo Soft Cell and for his distinctive soulful voice and androgynous image.

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Marion (band)

Marion are an English Britpop band, formed in 1993 in Macclesfield, Cheshire.

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Marti Pellow

Marti Pellow (born Mark McLachlan; 23 March 1965) is a Scottish singer.

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Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur

Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur is a two-disc compilation album by Blur, released by EMI Records on.

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Nick Kent

Nick Kent (born 24 December 1951) is a British rock critic and musician, best known for his writing for the NME in the 1970s, and his books The Dark Stuff (1994) and Apathy for the Devil (2010).

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand.

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Radar Records

Radar Records was a UK-based record label formed in late 1977 by Martin Davis (managing director) who had previously worked at United Artists Records, and Andrew Lauder, who had previously been head of A&R at the UK divisions of Liberty Records and United Artists.

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Rain Parade

The Rain Parade is a band that was originally active in the Paisley Underground scene in Los Angeles in the 1980s, and that reunited and resumed touring in 2012.

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Record label

"Big Three" music labels A record label or record company is a brand or trademark of music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it.

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Reissue

In the music industry, a reissue (also re-release, repackage or re-edition) is the release of an album or single which has been released at least once before, sometimes with alterations or additions. Demon Music Group and reissue are reissue record labels.

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Robert Palmer

Robert Allen Palmer (19 January 1949 – 26 September 2003) was an English singer and songwriter.

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Russ Tolman

Russ Tolman (born August 15, 1956) is a singer-songwriter who came to international attention in the 1980s as guitarist, songwriter, and producer of True West, a band associated with the Paisley Underground.

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Sammy Davis Jr.

Samuel George Davis Jr. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American singer, actor, comedian and dancer.

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Sheena Easton

Sheena Shirley Easton (born 27 April 1959) is a Scottish singer and actress who achieved recognition in an episode of the reality television series The Big Time: Pop Singer, which recorded her attempts to gain a record deal and her eventual signing with the EMI label.

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Siouxsie Sioux

Susan Janet Ballion (born 27 May 1957), known professionally as Siouxsie Sioux, is an English singer, songwriter, musician and record producer.

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Sonic artifact

In sound and music production, sonic artifact, or simply artifact, refers to sonic material that is accidental or unwanted, resulting from the editing or manipulation of a sound.

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Sony Music

Sony Music Entertainment (SME), commonly known as Sony Music, is an American multinational music company owned by Sony Entertainment and managed by the American umbrella division of multinational conglomerate Sony Group Corporation.

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Sparks (band)

Sparks is an American pop and rock duo formed by brothers Ron (keyboards) and Russell Mael (vocals) in Los Angeles.

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Spectrogram

A spectrogram is a visual representation of the spectrum of frequencies of a signal as it varies with time.

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Stiff Records

Stiff Records is a British independent record label formed in London, England, by Dave Robinson and Jake Riviera. Demon Music Group and Stiff Records are British record labels.

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Suede (band)

Suede (also known in the US as the London Suede) are an English rock band formed in London in 1989 by singer Brett Anderson, guitarist Justine Frischmann, and bass player Mat Osman.

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Sugar (American band)

Sugar was an American alternative rock band active in the early 1990s.

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T. Rex (band)

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The Bangles

The Bangles are an American all-female pop rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1981.

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The Beat (British band)

The Beat (known in the United States and Canada as the English Beat and in Australia as the British Beat) are an English band formed in Birmingham, England, in 1978.

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The Beautiful South

The Beautiful South were an English pop rock group formed in 1988 by Paul Heaton and Dave Hemingway, two former members of the Hull group the Housemartins, both of whom performed lead and backing vocals.

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The Dream Syndicate

The Dream Syndicate is an American alternative rock band from Los Angeles, California, originally active from 1981 to 1989, and reunited since 2012.

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The Kinks

The Kinks were an English rock band formed in London in 1963 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies.

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The S.O.S. Band

The S.O.S. Band (sometimes written as S.O.S. Band; abbreviation for Sounds of Success) is an American R&B and electro-funk group who gained fame in the 1980s.

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The Soldiers

The Soldiers is a singing trio consisting of serving British Army soldiers, whose debut album, Coming Home, was released on 26 October 2009, and who have since continued their singing career whilst remaining full-time army personnel.

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True West (band)

True West is a guitar band, often considered part of the Paisley Underground.

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UK singles chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently titled the Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_Music_Group

Also known as DMG TV, Demon Records, Edsel Records, Harmless (sublabel), Harmless Records, Imp Records, Music Club Deluxe, Westside Records.

, Robert Palmer, Russ Tolman, Sammy Davis Jr., Sheena Easton, Siouxsie Sioux, Sonic artifact, Sony Music, Sparks (band), Spectrogram, Stiff Records, Suede (band), Sugar (American band), T. Rex (band), The Bangles, The Beat (British band), The Beautiful South, The Dream Syndicate, The Kinks, The S.O.S. Band, The Soldiers, True West (band), UK singles chart, United Artists, United Kingdom, Urban contemporary music, World music.

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