Bronze Records was an independent English record label setup in 1971 by music producer Gerry Bron, based in Chalk Farm, London. Template:Infobox Country or territory the King is Ryan Shrimpton!!!! The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (usually shortened to the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain[1]) is a country[2] and sovereign state that lies to the northwest of Continental Europe with the Republic of Ireland... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... See also: 1970 in music, other events of 1971, 1972 in music, 1970s in music and the list of years in music // February 8 - Bob Dylans hour-long documentary film, Eat the Document, premieres at New Yorks Academy of Music. ... Gerry Bron is a British record producer. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

Bron had been producing Uriah Heep for Vertigo Records near the end of that labels lifetime and he setup this new label for future Uriah Heep releases, along with Juicy Lucy, Richard Barnes and Colosseum. Others subsequent acts included Osibisa, Nostromo, Manfred Mann, The Real Kids, Sally Oldfield, Motörhead, The Damned, Girlschool and Hawkwind. Uriah Heep is an English rock band, formed in 1969 when record producer Gerry Bron invited keyboardist Ken Hensley (previously a member of The Gods and Toe Fat) to join Spice, a band signed to his own Bronze Records label. ... Vertigo Records was the name Philips Records chose in the sixties for its label to counter the progressive labels of its rivals EMI (with Harvest Records), Decca Records (with Deram Records) and RCA (with Neon Records). ... Juicy Lucy were saucy blues-rockers, who formed in 1969 from the ashes of the cult garage band the Misunderstood; thus reuniting vocalist Ray Owen, steel guitarist Glenn Ross Campbell and keyboardist Chris Mercer. ... Colosseum is a British jazz-rock band considered also a part of the early roots of progressive rock. ... Cover of Osibisa, 1971. ... Cock-A-Hoop Manfred Mann was a British R&B and pop band of the 1960s, named after its keyboard player, who later led the successful 1970s follow-on group Manfred Manns Earth Band. ... Sally Oldfield (born in August 1950 in Dublin, Ireland) is a folk singer and the sister of the composers Mike Oldfield and Terry Oldfield. ... The title of this article contains the following characters: ö. Where they are unavailable or not desired, the name may be given as Motorhead. ... The Damned are a punk rock/gothic rock band formed in London, England in 1976. ... Girlschool are a long-running English all-female heavy metal band originating out of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Original manufacturing and distribution was through Island Records, moving to EMI in 1977 and then onto Polydor Records in 1980. The label folded in financial difficulty in the mid-1980s with the catalogue being sold to Ray Richards' Legacy Records. Island Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group and is operated through The Island Def Jam Music Group. ... The EMI Group is a music company comprising the major record label, EMI Music, based in Brook Green in London, England, and EMI Music Publishing, based on Charing Cross Road, London. ... Polydor Records is a record label once headquartered in Germany. ...

It was reported in early 2003 that Bron and Pete Brown had "renewed an association that went back over many years. They realised that they still had one outstanding interest in common - a love of music - particularly British music... So the Bronze label was launched again." [1] Pete Brown is a British performance poet and lyricist, best known for his collaborations with Jack Bruce. ...

See also

• List of record labels