Island Records

Multinational label. Label Code: LC 0407 / LC 00407 Island Records (often using a logo that omits "Records") was named for [i]Island In The Sun[/i] (a novel, film, and [a=Harry Belafonte] calypso hit), and was founded in Jamaica in 1959 by [a=Chris Blackwell], [a570526] and [a282882]. In May 1962, Blackwell relocated the label to the UK in order to market music by Jamaican artists to immigrant communities in London and Birmingham. In 1967, however, Island shifted its focus to relatively edgy r