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Unlike Swan Song Records or Apple Records , the Vanity Label s of Led Zeppelin and The Beatles respectively, Rolling Stones Records never made much of an effort to sign outside artists. Nevertheless, in 1973 , Mick Jagger listened to songs John Phillips , formally of the Mamas And Papas , had written before an English cricket match they were attending on holiday. That evening he signed Phillips to a contract on Rolling Stones Records and booked studio time in London's Olympic Sound . Jagger and Keith Richards were producers for the ill-fated album, eventually released in 2001 under a Virgin/EMI imprint Eagle Records as '' Pay Pack & Follow ''. The initial sessions began a six year recording odyssey, which ultimately was a failed attempt, both musically, financially and personally for Phillips and Rolling Stones Records. Ahmet Ertegun , then head of Atlantic Records , and Jagger grew increasingly dissatisfied with the Richards and Phillips partnership that during the decade included heavy drug use. Ultimately the record was shelved and shut down after money was cut off for further recording and mixing in 1979 . Ertegun in particular thought it lacked marketability and had no first single to release. As reported in Phillips biography, ''Papa John'', hundreds and thousands of dollars had been spent recording in both London and New York. In 1978 Rolling Stones Records signed Peter Tosh , a former member of Bob Marley 's band The Wailers to a contract. His first album for the label, '' Bush Doctor '', was moderately successful, mostly due to the appearance of both Mick Jagger and Keith Richards on the single from the album, " Don't Look Back ". Despite further moderate success, Tosh would later exit the label in 1981 , citing lack of promotion and a personal feud with the Stones. In its original concept, the label was thought of as a way for members of the Stones to release solo albums. 's " The Harder They Come ". In 1985 and 1987 , respectively, Jagger released his first solo albums, She's The Boss , and Primitive Cool through a newly conceived partnership between Rolling Stones Records and CBS Records (now Sony Music ). Thus the trademark Stones logo was affixed to each record, as well as on the label "Rolling Stones Records" was printed on each new release, angering fellow Rolling Stones bandmate Keith Richards. In fact, through the 1980s and early 1990s , 'Rolling Stones Records' was printed on the labels of all new releases from Undercover (1983) to Flashpoint (1991). However, as the back catalogue has been shifted to Virgin/EMI, these markers are the last vapour trails of Rolling Stones Records. SEE ALSO |
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