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For the Mushroom Records company from Canada, see Mushroom Records (Canada). Mushroom Records was a recording label company based in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada, founded by Shelly Siegel along with
For the company that used to be Mushroom's operations in the United Kingdom, see A&E Records. A&E Records is an United Kingdom -based Record label imprint owned by Warner Music Group, and operates under the WEA International group of labels
Mushroom Records
Type joint venture
Founded 1972
Headquarters , Australia
Key people
Industry Music & Entertainment
Products Music & Entertainment
Parent Warner Bros. Records
Website www.mushroomrecords.com.au

Mushroom Records is an Australian record company formed by Michael Gudinski and Ray Evans in 1972. Michael Solomon Gudinski AM (born August 22, 1950) is a Melbourne -based entrepreneur and businessman who is a leading figure in the Australian For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" Music is an Art form in which the medium is Sound organized in Time. See also Entertainment (disambiguation and The Entertainer (disambiguation Entertainment is an activity designed to give people In Marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a Market that might satisfy a want or need Music is an Art form in which the medium is Sound organized in Time. See also Entertainment (disambiguation and The Entertainer (disambiguation Entertainment is an activity designed to give people A holding company is a company that owns part all or a majority of other companies' outstanding Stock. Warner Bros Records Inc is an American Record label that operates as a wholly owned Subsidiary of Warner Music Group. A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music Michael Solomon Gudinski AM (born August 22, 1950) is a Melbourne -based entrepreneur and businessman who is a leading figure in the Australian Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. After its sale in 1998, it merged into Festival Mushroom Records. Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) Festival Mushroom Records was an Australian music recording and publishing company which was founded in Sydney in 1952 and operated until 2005 As of 2006 it is one of the record labels operated by Warner Bros. Records. Warner Bros Records Inc is an American Record label that operates as a wholly owned Subsidiary of Warner Music Group. It is currently internationally today known as WEA International Inc.

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History

Mushroom Records had its beginnings when Michael Gudinski was managing the band Healing Force who had the single "Golden Miles" released in July 1971. It shot to the top of the charts, but their record company at the time had already stopped producing the record as they didn't have faith in the record, so copies ran out. Michael Gudinski formed Mushroom Records to make sure that would never happen again. [1]

The label's inaugural release was an ambitious triple LP recording of the 1973 Sunbury Pop Festival, and over the next few years they signed a number of important Australian acts of the period including Madder Lake and Mackenzie Theory. The Sunbury Pop Festival was an Australian Rock music festival held on a 620 acre private farm in Sunbury Victoria staged annually on the Australia Mushroom struggled to survive for its first two years and reportedly came close to folding on several occasions, but the label was dramatically pushed to the forefront of the Australian music scene in early 1975 following the massive success of Skyhooks, whose debut album became the biggest-selling Australian LP ever released up to that time. Skyhooks were an Australian rock band of the 1970s sometimes classified as a Glam rock bandalthough this is mainly the result of the band's flamboyant Around the same time, Gudinksi was convinced to sign expatriate New Zealand band Split Enz, who had recently relocated to Australia. New Zealand is an Island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (the North Island and the South Island Split Enz was a successful New Zealand band during the 1970s and early 1980s featuring Phil Judd and brothers Tim Finn and Neil Finn. Although they had only moderate success for the first few years, Split Enz scored huge success in 1980 with the release of their album True Colours and the hit single "I Got You", which marked the emergence of Neil Finn. Neil Mullane Finn OBE (born May 27 1958, in Te Awamutu, New Zealand) is a Singer and Songwriter and one

Mushroom entered the international scene by setting up an International division in London headed by Korda Marshall of Infectious Records and formally RCA. Infectious Records is a Record label whose bands include Ash, Symposium, My Vitriol, Seafood, and The Subways. RCA Corporation, founded as Radio Corporation of America, was an electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1986 The Australian label had some international success before then by signing The Saints, Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan in the eighties. The Saints are an Australian Rock band, formed in Brisbane in 1974 Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE, born 28 May 1968 is an Australian pop Singer - Songwriter and occasional Actress. Jason Sean Donovan (born 1 June 1968, Malvern, Melbourne) is an Australian Actor and Singer. However the last two were released internationally through PWL. PWL (Pete Waterman Ltd is the production company one-time pop and dance Record label owned by pop mogul Pete Waterman. In the 1990s, Mushroom missed out on what could have been one of its biggest signings, and although the label was reportedly in the front-running to sign rising new Australian band Silverchair; the group opted to sign with the Sony label instead. Silverchair is an Australian Alternative rock band. The band formed as Innocent Criminals in Newcastle, New South Wales, in 1992 is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest Media conglomerates with

After selling 49% of the company to News Corporation in 1993, Garbage signed to the label via Marshall's UK operation, followed by Pop Will Eat Itself, Ash and Peter André. News Corporation (often abbreviated to News Corp) (,,) is one of the world's largest media conglomerate companies by Market capitalisation Garbage is an American rock group formed in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1994 Pop Will Eat Itself (also known as PWEI or the Poppies) were an English band formed in Stourbridge, with band members from Birmingham Ash are an Alternative rock band that formed in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland in 1992 Peter James André (born 27 February 1973 is an English-born Australian Singer-songwriter and Television personality.

Gudinski sold the remaining 51% share of the label to News Corporation in 1998 for a sum reported to have been around AU$40 million. However, the sale of Australia's last major independent label to a multinational engendered some adverse publicity, with Gudinski controversially claiming that he had sold the label as a protest at the federal government's changes to the regulations governing the parallel importation of recordings.

Gudinski maintained control of most other Mushroom Group companies (including interests in music publishing, film production, band booking, national touring and venue management) and the name Mushroom Records. This article deals with contemporary Popular music publishing When Mushroom was merged with News Corporations's record label Festival Records to form Festival Mushroom Records in 1998, Gudinksi relaunched Liberation Music. Festival Mushroom Records was an Australian music recording and publishing company which was founded in Sydney in 1952 and operated until 2005 Festival Mushroom Records was an Australian music recording and publishing company which was founded in Sydney in 1952 and operated until 2005 Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) Liberation Music is a boutique independent Australasian Record company, started in 1999 by Michael Gudinski and Warren Costello.

In October 2005 Festival Mushroom Records was sold to the Australian division of the Warner Music Group in a deal reported to be worth around $AU10 million. Festival Mushroom Records was an Australian music recording and publishing company which was founded in Sydney in 1952 and operated until 2005 Warner Music Group (WMG is the third-largest of the "big four" major record labels, the others being Sony BMG, EMI, and Universal [2]

The company's other major asset, Festival Music Publishing, was sold to Gudinksi's Mushroom Music a month later for an undisclosed sum. . [3]

A&E Records

With the reorganisation into Festival Mushroom Records, a number of international operations and joint ventures were either shut down or sold. Festival Mushroom Records was an Australian music recording and publishing company which was founded in Sydney in 1952 and operated until 2005 In the United Kingdom, the British arm of the company (including Infectious and Perfecto Records) was reorganised as A&E Records and sold on to the Warner Music Group when Korda Marshall took a position within that company. Infectious Records is a Record label whose bands include Ash, Symposium, My Vitriol, Seafood, and The Subways. Perfecto Records is a United Kingdom based Trance Record label founded by famed trance DJ Paul Oakenfold in 1989 A&E Records is an United Kingdom -based Record label imprint owned by Warner Music Group, and operates under the WEA International group of labels Warner Music Group (WMG is the third-largest of the "big four" major record labels, the others being Sony BMG, EMI, and Universal

Selective list of Mushroom Records signings

An asterisk (*) denotes an artist/company who no longer records for the label.

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.abc.net.au/perth/stories/s1409460.htm
  2. ^ "Warner Music Buys Aussie Indie FMR" - Christie Eliezer, All Business, 20 October 2005
  3. ^ "Australia's Mushroom Music Buys Festival Pub." - Christie Eliezer, All Business, 24 November 2005

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