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Rolling Stones Records is the record label formed by Mick Jagger , Keith Richards , Mick Taylor , Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman in 1970 , after their recording contract with Decca Records expired. They were first distributed in the United States by Atlantic Records daughter Atco Records . Beginning in 1973 they signed a distribution deal with Atlantic Records . In 1986 Columbia Records started distributing them. Currently they are distributed by Virgin Records . In the UK, they were distributed by EMI. The label was initially headed by Marshall Chess, the son of Chess Records founder Leonard Chess . 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. Throughout the early 1970s, American singer-songwriter & Keith Richards cohort Gram Parsons lobbied to record a hypothetical album to be produced by Richards; he travelled with the group during their 1971 English tour and eventually moved in with Richards (Nellcôte in Villefrance-sur-mer) during the recording of ''Exile on Main Street''. Parsons' physical state deteriorated rapidly during the sessions and he was asked to leave by Anita Pallenberg ; he would eventually sign with Warner Brothers. Kracker, a Cuban rock group produced by Rolling Stones' producer, Jimmy Miller, was the first band to be signed to Rolling Stones Records in 1973. Kracker, along with Billy Preston, opened the show for the Stones during their 1973 European Tour. Nevertheless, in 1973 , Mick Jagger listened to songs John Phillips , formerly 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 Ertegün , 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 . Ertegün 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. The first album to be released was '''s "Run, Rudolph, Run" backed by a version of Jimmy Cliff '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 and the label "Rolling Stones Records" was also printed on each new release, which angered fellow Rolling Stones bandmate Keith Richards. In fact, through the 1980s and early 1990s , 'Rolling Stones Records' continued to be printed on the labels of all new releases up through '' 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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