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Telstar Records was a record label founded in 1982 by Sean O'Brian and Neil Palmer with government loan of £120,000. It was founded as a specialist compilation marketing label and had hits with a range of compilation franchises such as the Deep Heat and 100% ranges. As well as these brands the company would licence a number of major artist recordings (foe example Abba and the Four Tops) to release telemarketed compilations. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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ABBA (1972–1982) was a Swedish pop music group. ...
The Four Tops are an American musical group, who helped define the Motown sound of the 1960s. ...
In the mid 1990s it diversified it's output into the singles market and long-term artist development with the launch of the Multiply Records and Wildstar Records subsidiaries. Prior to these devolpments Telstar would normally only release singles that were tele-marketed and associated products like The Chippendales or PJ and Duncan aka. Acts signed in this period included Connor Reeves, Sash!, Phats And Small and Basement Jaxx, while Craig David brought the first ever UK number one single for the label. Multiply Records is a subsidiary of Telstar Records, launched in 1993. ...
Wildstar Records is a subsidiary of Telstar Records, launched in 1993. ...
Chippendale is a suburb of Sydney, south-southwest of the city centre, and near the University of Sydney. ...
Ant (left) and Dec appearing in an ITV 1 ident. ...
Sascha Lappessen on the cover of his album S4 Sash Sash! is a German DJ / producer team, fronted by Sascha Lappessen (born on 10 June 1970, in Nettetal, Germany), who works in the studio with Ralf Kappmeier and Thomas Alisson Lüdke. ...
Basement Jaxx are a critically acclaimed UK house music duo comprised of Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe that rose to popularity in the late 1990s. ...
Craig David on the cover of his 2nd album (2002) Craig Ashley David (born 5 May 1981) is a British R&B singer. ...
Other artists included Victoria Beckham (a sub-licence deal from 19 Records), Rosie Ribbons, Skream! and Mis-Teeq. Victoria Caroline Beckham (born Victoria Caroline Adams on 17 April 1974) is an English celebrity and designer, formerly a popular music singer, who first came to prominence as a member of girl band the Spice Girls, as Posh Spice, a nickname given to her by the BBCs Top of...
Rosemary Rosie Ribbons (born July 22, 1983) is an Australian-born, UK-based singer. ...
Skream! were a 3-piece boy group, consisting of lead singer/songwriter Matt Damians (real name Raf Damiaens and born in the north Dutch-speaking part of Belgium), keyboardist/songwriter James Gordon (Bishops Stortford, UK) and singer/dancer Carl Mc Aleer (Bishops Stordford, UK). ...
Mis-Teeq was a female R&B trio from the UK. Its members were Alesha Dixon, Su-Elise Nash and Sabrina Washington. ...
In the late 1990s, Telstar became closely associated with BMG Records, especially with the Telstar TV compilation arm and The Hits Album releases. Hits 1 Hits 2 The Hits Album was a highly successful compilation brand that was released in the UK between 1984 and 1991. ...
Telstar Records went bankrupt in 2004, largely due to the company's habit of giving large advances to artists such as Claire Sweeney, Victoria Beckham and Rosie Ribbons who failed to make them any money. In the media much of the blame for the label's failure was placed on their most high profile signing, Victoria Beckham. However as most of Telstar's roaster were not 'directly' signed to the label, instead being either sub-licenced or part of number of joint ventures, BMG (soon to be merged with Sony) declined in buying the label's assest out right. Claire Sweeney (born April 17, 1972 in Liverpool) is a British actress who is best known for her role as Lindsey Corkhill in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside. ...
Victoria Caroline Beckham (born Victoria Caroline Adams on 17 April 1974) is an English celebrity and designer, formerly a popular music singer, who first came to prominence as a member of girl band the Spice Girls, as Posh Spice, a nickname given to her by the BBCs Top of...
Rosemary Rosie Ribbons (born July 22, 1983) is an Australian-born, UK-based singer. ...
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Artists
Telstar - Ant and Dec (also as PJ & Duncan)
- Victoria Beckham (from 19)
- Mis-Teeq (from Inferno Cool - recordings owned by Twenty First Artists Ltd)
- Skream! (3-piece boyband)
- Crush (ex-Byker Grooove)
- N-TYCE
- Project D
- Specialist Compilation Marketing:
Ant (left) and Dec appearing in an ITV 1 ident. ...
Victoria Caroline Beckham (born Victoria Caroline Adams on 17 April 1974) is an English celebrity and designer, formerly a popular music singer, who first came to prominence as a member of girl band the Spice Girls, as Posh Spice, a nickname given to her by the BBCs Top of...
Mis-Teeq was a female R&B trio from the UK. Its members were Alesha Dixon, Su-Elise Nash and Sabrina Washington. ...
Skream! were a 3-piece boy group, consisting of lead singer/songwriter Matt Damians (real name Raf Damiaens and born in the north Dutch-speaking part of Belgium), keyboardist/songwriter James Gordon (Bishops Stortford, UK) and singer/dancer Carl Mc Aleer (Bishops Stordford, UK). ...
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ABBA (1972–1982) was a Swedish pop music group. ...
Polar is a Norwegian drum and bass producer. ...
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Marvin Gaye (born Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. ...
Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers were a novelty pop act who were the third band to have their first three releases go to number one on the UK singles chart, a feat they achieved between July and December 1989. ...
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Heatwave may refer to: Heat_wave - an unseasonal and potentially destructive period of hot weather Heatwave (magazine), a short-lived 1960s anarchist magazine produced in London by Charles Radcliffe. ...
Bad Manners Bad Manners are a second-wave, or Two Tone, ska band. ...
ELO has several meanings: Electric Light Orchestra, a rock music group ELO rating system for measuring relative strength of chess players A contraction for hello, frequently used on the internet. ...
Roy Orbison at a London press conference, late 1988. ...
T2 Claire Sweeney (born April 17, 1972 in Liverpool) is a British actress who is best known for her role as Lindsey Corkhill in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside. ...
Rosemary Rosie Ribbons (born July 22, 1983) is an Australian-born, UK-based singer. ...
Telescope The London Symphony Orchestra (frequently abbreviated to LSO) is one of the major orchestras of the United Kingdom. ...
Multiply Sascha Lappessen on the cover of his album S4 Sash Sash! is a German DJ / producer team, fronted by Sascha Lappessen (born on 10 June 1970, in Nettetal, Germany), who works in the studio with Ralf Kappmeier and Thomas Alisson Lüdke. ...
Basement Jaxx are a critically acclaimed UK house music duo comprised of Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe that rose to popularity in the late 1990s. ...
Atlantic Jaxx Logo Atlanta Jaxx is a record company founded and owned by electronica / house music duo Basement Jaxx. ...
Wildstar Joint venture with Capital. Alda is the name of two places in Nebraska, United States: Alda, Nebraska Alda Township, Nebraska Alda is the sole name of one saint: Saint Alda, an Italian mystic. ...
Craig David on the cover of his 2nd album (2002) Craig Ashley David (born 5 May 1981) is a British R&B singer. ...
XSrhythm Chippendale is a suburb of Sydney, south-southwest of the city centre, and near the University of Sydney. ...
Ant (left) and Dec appearing in an ITV 1 ident. ...
Compilation Brands (these were listed as part of the Hits Album brand in the Complete Book Of British Charts due to Telstar TV's later involvement with the series, but actually released by Telstar alone without joint venture status with Sony, BMG or Warners) 100% was a compilation album series of the early 1990s, released by Telstar Records in the United Kingdom. ...
Euphoria is a club brand that debuted on a number of trance compilations on the Telstar Records label in the 1990s, and was spun off into a number of associated club nights in the United Kingdom. ...
Ministry of Sound (MoS) is one of the most famous nightclubs in the world of electronic music. ...
Telstar Records range of Deep Heat compilations were one of the first house music collections to be released by a Specialist marketing firm in the United Kingdom. ...
The Box may mean: The Box, a 1990s music video jukebox on TV in the U.S., sold to MTV2, now on in the Netherlands. ...
The Brit Awards are annual United Kingdom pop music awards, considered to be on a par with the Grammys in the United States. ...
Bertelsmann is a transnational media corporation founded in 1835, based in G tersloh, Germany. ...
Chart Attack Chart Attack was Telstar Records first chart hit in the UK Top 75 album charts. It was released in the fall of '82 and reached number 7 in the main chart in the days before the exclusion of such various artist albums.
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