New Rose Records was created by Patrick Mathé and Louis Thevenon, New Rose had some 10 years (1981/1992) of magnificience and worldwide fame. It was one of the worldwide most important independant label.
Among new bands and french bands, Patrick Mathé also re-discovered or gave a new opportunity to many of legends of Rock'n'Roll (Willie Alexander, Alex Chilton, Sky Saxon, Roky Erickson,...). It was sometimes like a big family (just see the "Play New Rose for Me" compilation to see what I mean).

The parisian New Rose record shop was also really the center of the then independent scene (while others labels -some distributed by New Rose- filled the same role in other towns in France).

In 1992, the label had been sold to the FNAC (actually Fnac Music), but, due to Fnac -most enormous european chain & distributor- reorganisation and business goals, New Rose disappeared early in 1994; and Patrick Mathé initiated another label : Last Call records -with the initial New Rose records spirit, still successfull, issuing -among others- some of the bands already with New Rose records.

Important note:
The NR ### mention you can find on records are not catalogue numbers, just french distribution codes (New Rose was also one of the biggest independant distributors in France).
These codes are not unique and therefore should not be entered.