Illegal Records

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Illegal Records
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Founded1977
Founder Miles Copeland III, Stewart Copeland, Paul Mulligan
Defunct1988
StatusDefunct
Genre Alternative rock, punk rock
Country of originUnited Kingdom

Illegal Records was an independent record label, founded in 1977 by Miles Copeland III with his younger brother Stewart Copeland and the manager of The Police, Paul Mulligan. [1] The label released The Police's debut single, "Fall Out". [2]

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Copeland went on to sign more artists and started several other indie sublabels including: Deptford Fun City Records, Step-Forward Records and Total Noise Records. He also launched the foreign divisions, France & Netherlands, that released some of the same titles with different catalogue numbers, and some exclusive titles as well.

In 1979, after Copeland started I.R.S. Records, Illegal became its distributor in UK and Europe. It continued its operations until 1988, when it merged its operations with I.R.S.

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References

  1. 1 2 Paul Marko Borthwick, Stuart; Moy, Ron (2004). Popular music genres: an introduction. ISBN   9780748617456 . Retrieved 8 January 2010.
  2. ↑ Archived 10 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ Sabin, Roger (1999). Punk rock: so what? : the cultural ... Routledge. ISBN   9780415170291 . Retrieved 8 January 2010.
  4. ↑ The Roxy London Wc2: A Punk History. The Roxy Club London:Punk, 2007. 2007. ISBN   978-0955658303 . Retrieved 8 January 2010.


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