Parlophone Records T-shirt

Parlophone is a record label, founded in Germany 1896 by the Carl Lindstrom Company. Since The Beatles, many other pop/rock artists have signed to the label, including Queen, Radiohead and Blur.

Parlophone is a record label, founded in Germany 1896 by the Carl Lindstrom Company. The £ trademark is not the British pound sign, but a German L, for Lindstrom. In 1923 Parlophone established a master leasing arrangement with co-owned United States based Okeh Records, making Parlophone a leading jazz label in the UK. In 1927, Columbia Graphophone Company of the United Kingdom acquired a controlling interest in the Carl Lindstrom Company and thereby in Parlophone. In 1931, Columbia merged with the Gramophone Company to form EMI. Under EMI, Parlophone initially maintained its status as a jazz label.

Parlophone’s fortunes began to rise in 1962, when George Martin signed a rising new Liverpool pop band, The Beatles, who soon turned Parlophone into one of the world’s most famous and sought-after record labels. Since The Beatles, many other pop/rock artists have signed to the label, including Queen, Radiohead and Blur.