2023-04-18. "BUSINESS PEOPLE; Polygram Records Names President". The New York Times. 1985-10-18. Retrieved 2021-01-27. "PolyGram buys A&M Records for $500...
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PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (formerly known as Filmworks, Casablanca Record & Filmworks, PolyGram Films and PolyGram Pictures or simply PFE) was a film...
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Island Records (redirect from Island/PolyGram Records)
1959, 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...
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Verve Records (redirect from Verve Music Group (PolyGram))
1970s, Verve became part of PolyGram, incorporating the Mercury/EmArcy jazz catalog, which Philips, part owners of PolyGram had earlier acquired. Verve...
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with all UMG labels and with its PolyGram Entertainment film and TV production unit. "Universal Music Relaunching Polygram, Announces 'Story of Motown' as...
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has since remained popular for more than three decades. Chan signed to PolyGram Records, Hong Kong (寶麗金) in 1986 and reached her career peak between the...
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Universal Music Group (redirect from Universal Music Group–PolyGram merger)
label within the Universal Music Group. In May 1998, Seagram purchased PolyGram and merged it with Universal Music Group in early 1999. Seagram's entertainment...
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Polydor Records (section PolyGram)
the Grammophon-Philips Group (GPG) reorganised to create PolyGram, from Polydor and PhonoGram. The Polydor label continued to run as a subsidiary label...
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and two videos featuring live performances of Xymox songs from the 4AD, Polygram, and independent eras. In September 2004, a Best of Clan of Xymox album...
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Pictures library (owned by EMKA, Ltd.), all 1996–99 PolyGram Filmed Entertainment films (as well as PolyGram Visual Programming), USA Films, StudioCanal (International...
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with PolyGram/Mercury Records in 1975. In that year, she relocated with her mother to Nashville, Tennessee. Over the next several years, PolyGram/Mercury...
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Philips Records (redirect from PolyGram Classics & Jazz)
formed the Grammophon-Philips Group joint venture (GPG), which later became PolyGram in 1972. UK pressings were manufactured at the company's large factory...
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Interscope Communications (section PolyGram)
Ted Field. It soon became a division of PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. In 1999, after Seagram merged PolyGram into Universal Pictures, Interscope Communications...
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A&M Records (section Acquisition by PolyGram)
A&M Records.com. 2006. "At Polygram NV's first annual meeting as..." Los Angeles Times. May 2, 1990. "Seagram buys PolyGram from Philips for $10.6bn"....
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"Polygram TV, Ryan link up". Variety. Archived from the original on 2021-11-21. Retrieved 2021-11-21. Littleton, Cynthia (1999-04-23). "Polygram TV...
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Def Jam Recordings (section PolyGram era (1994–1998))
financial troubles and was faced with folding while at Sony. In 1994, PolyGram purchased Sony's 50% stake in Def Jam Recordings—subsequently bringing...
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Alain Levy (section PolyGram France 1984-1988)
United States divisions of PolyGram including PolyGram Music Group, PolyGram Video, PolyMedia, PolyGram Special Markets, PolyGram Merchandising, Independent...
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Seagram completed its seven-month $10.6 billion plan to acquire PolyGram. As a result, PolyGram's music division was merged into Universal Music Group. Geffen...
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director Mel Smith. In 1988, Michael Kuhn of PolyGram started to work with the company and in 1989 PolyGram acquired 49% of the company and they jointly...
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drummer Greg Gilmore to the lineup. In 1989, the band signed a deal with PolyGram issuing an EP, Shine, before going on tour, supporting The Dogs D'Amour...
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MGM Records (section Sale to PolyGram and phase out)
MGM Records, including its artists, was absorbed into PolyGram's Polydor Records. However, PolyGram continued releasing MGM soundtrack albums and reissues...
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star in David Fincher's thriller The Game, but its production company, Polygram, dropped her from the project after disagreements over her role. Foster...
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music videos and commercials, Propaganda entered into a deal in 1988 with PolyGram which meant that the Dutch media company would pay for Propaganda's film...
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Seagram Company completed its seven-month, $10.6 billion plan to acquire PolyGram and consolidated its music label unit with that of MCA Music, forming Universal...
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Universal Music Publishing Group (redirect from Polygram International Publishing)
Music Publishing until it merged with PolyGram in 1998 when Seagram acquired PolyGram for $10.4 billion. PolyGram's music business was merged into Seagram's...
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Focus World Rogue Pictures (pre-2010) Working Title Films WT2 Productions PolyGram Filmed Entertainment film library (post-March 1996) Castle Films/Universal...
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Deutsche Grammophon, Philips Records, and Polydor to become PolyGram in 1972. That year, PolyGram bought Mercury from NAPC. Mercury's corporate name was changed...
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PolyGram Polska Sp. z o.o. (PolyGram Poland), was a Polish subsidiary of PolyGram. The label was founded in 1994 in Warsaw when independent record label...
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referred to as Philips Classics, was a classical music label founded by PolyGram that existed from 1983 until 2009. A new division called Philips Classics...
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mail-order company owned by PolyGram which sponsored the Brit Awards. The company was acquired by Universal Pictures as part of PolyGram in 1998, and closed in...
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