E.G. Records was a UK-based artist management company and independent record label, mostly active during the 1970s and 1980s. The initials stand for its founders, David Enthoven and John Gaydon. The pair signed on as managers of King Crimson in early 1969, during the formative stage of the band and prior to the release of debut In the Court of the Crimson King. They also signed to management T.Rex, Emerson Lake and Palmer and Roxy Music. Gaydon l...
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E.G. Records was a UK-based artist management company and independent record label, mostly active during the 1970s and 1980s. The initials stand for its founders, David Enthoven and John Gaydon. The pair signed on as managers of King Crimson in early 1969, during the formative stage of the band and prior to the release of debut In the Court of the Crimson King. They also signed to management T.Rex, Emerson Lake and Palmer and Roxy Music. Gaydon left in 1971 and Enthoven in 1977. Sam Alder and Mark Fenwick (now managing Roger Waters) reformed the label several years later, rereleasing material from King Crimson, in addition to others such as Brian Eno, Killing Joke, Loose Tubes, Human Chain, Man Jumping, Iain Ballamy, Earthworks, and U.K.
The label has been distributed by Island Records (through 1974) and then Polydor Records. In the US, artists were placed on Atlantic Records, Warner Bros. Records, Polydor Records, Passport/Jem Records, and Virgin Records and in various other labels...
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