Dandelion Records was a British record label started in 1969 by the British DJ John Peel as a way to get the music he liked onto record. It is said to have been named after one of Peel's hamsters. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... Autobiography John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was a British disc jockey, radio presenter, and journalist. ...

One LP was by the ageing Gene Vincent but others were by younger or noncommercial artists, including Beau, Bridget St John, Medicine Head, Clifford T. Ward, David Bedford, Lol Coxhill, Stackwaddy, Tractor/The Way We Live and Kevin Coyne/Siren. Gene Vincent, real name Vincent Eugene Craddock (February 11, 1935 – October 12, 1971) was an American rockabilly pioneer musician, best known for his hit Be-Bop-A-Lula. He started playing in various country bands in his native Norfolk, Virginia after leaving the United States Navy with a permanent leg... Bridget St John is a singer with a distinctively deep and somewhat melancholy voice. ... Medicine Head was a British British blues rock band active in the 1970s. ... It has been suggested that Clifford t ward be merged into this article or section. ... David Vickerman Bedford (born August 4, 1937) is a British composer and musician. ... Lowen Coxhill, almost universally known as Lol Coxhill, born September 19, 1932, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, is a free improvising saxophonist. ... Kevin Coyne was an English singer, composer, writer and painter. ...

Beau's "1917 Revolution" made No. 1 in the Lebanon in 1969. The only record ever to make the UK charts was the single "(And the) Pictures in the Sky" by Medicine Head, which reached no. 21 in 1971. Had Dandelion not turned down Roxy Music that same year, the story might well have been different. Roxy Music is a British art rock group founded in the early 1970s as a collaborative project between art school graduates Bryan Ferry (vocals, keyboards) and Brian Eno (electronic music specialist). ...

Dandelion Records were distributed by, successively, CBS Records, Warner Brothers Records and Polydor. The last issues were in 1972. Columbia Records is the oldest continually used brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888. ... Warner Brothers Records is a record label which was launched on March 19, 1958 by Warner Bros. ... Polydor Records is a record label once headquartered in Germany. ...

Most Dandelion recordings have been reissued on vinyl and/or CD, most notably in the mid '90s by See For Miles Records. The Dandelion records by Tractor and The Way We Live were reissued in the 2000s by Ozit Morpheus Records. See For Miles Records is a British record label which distributed some of the records of Dandelion Records on CD in the nineties. ...

See also

• List of record labels

The following is a partial list of record labels, both past and present. ...

External link

• Dandelion Records by Trevor Midgley