Please note, many Chrysalis issues also carried an EMI logo. This is not a label and EMI should not be added as a label, it instead indicates that Chrysalis was part of the EMI Group.
The roots of Chrysalis stretch back to a tiny flat in West London in 1967, when former university social secretaries, Chris Wright, then 22, and Terry Ellis, 23, linked their flair for managing and booking bands to form the Ellis Wright Agency.
After a couple of experiences trying to release their bands records via other companies, Wright and Ellis began thinking in terms of their own label. In 1968, they signed a licensing deal with Island Records with the proviso that, should Wright and Ellis' acts log an agreed number of hits, then the pair would be awarded a label in their own right. The appropriate tally was logged within a year, and a new independent record company –Chrysalis, an amalgam of Wright's first name and Ellis' last name– was born.
After buying out Terry Ellis in 1985, Chris Wright sold the Chrysalis Records label to EMI in 1991. EMI was bought out by Universal Music Group in 2012; in 2013, they sold the Parlophone Label Group, which includes Chrysalis, to Warner Music Group. In May 2016 the label was sold to a consortium, Blue Raincoat Music, which included co-founder Chris Wright as Non-Executive Chairman; Blue Raincoat plans to relaunch Chrysalis with both catalog artists and new signings.
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Vinyl label identification guide for American releases:
1970-1972: Chrysalis Productions imprint on Jethro Tull Reprise releases.
1972-1976: Standalone label distributed by Warner Bros.; lime green label with orange logo.
1977-1987: Fading blue label with white logo. Independent distribution from '77 to '83. DIstribution changed to CBS during the first week of 1983.
1987 to end of 1988: White label with large abstract butterfly logo; still under CBS distribution.
1989 to early 1990s: White label with large abstract butterfly logo; Capitol distribution.
Labelcode: LC 1626.
This label contains releases on multinational markets. Do NOT create imprints for different countries.
Cover that information on new releases with the country field and with proper notes about the release (i.e. releasing company, labelcode, (P) & (C) info, BIEM, etc.).
The roots of Chrysalis stretch back to a tiny flat in West London in 1967, when former university social secretaries, Chris Wright, then 22, and Terry Ellis, 23, linked their flair for managing and booking bands to form the Ellis Wright Agency.
After a couple of experiences trying to release their bands records via other companies, Wright and Ellis began thinking in terms of their own label. In 1968, they signed a licensing deal with Island Records with the proviso that, should Wright and Ellis' acts log an agreed number of hits, then the pair would be awarded a label in their own right. The appropriate tally was logged within a year, and a new independent record company –Chrysalis, an amalgam of Wright's first name and Ellis' last name– was born.
After buying out Terry Ellis in 1985, Chris Wright sold the Chrysalis Records label to EMI in 1991. EMI was bought out by Universal Music Group in 2012; in 2013, they sold the Parlophone Label Group, which includes Chrysalis, to Warner Music Group. In May 2016 the label was sold to a consortium, Blue Raincoat Music, which included co-founder Chris Wright as Non-Executive Chairman; Blue Raincoat plans to relaunch Chrysalis with both catalog artists and new signings.
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Vinyl label identification guide for American releases:
1970-1972: Chrysalis Productions imprint on Jethro Tull Reprise releases.
1972-1976: Standalone label distributed by Warner Bros.; lime green label with orange logo.
1977-1987: Fading blue label with white logo. Independent distribution from '77 to '83. DIstribution changed to CBS during the first week of 1983.
1987 to end of 1988: White label with large abstract butterfly logo; still under CBS distribution.
1989 to early 1990s: White label with large abstract butterfly logo; Capitol distribution.
Labelcode: LC 1626.
This label contains releases on multinational markets. Do NOT create imprints for different countries.
Cover that information on new releases with the country field and with proper notes about the release (i.e. releasing company, labelcode, (P) & (C) info, BIEM, etc.).
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November 14, 2020Artwork is painstakingly recreated/restored using source materials where possible, the very best available original masters are selected, the engagement with their artists & subject matter experts, the mastering (typically sublime and sympathetic by Alchemy), audio restoration, pressing (zero tolerance for defects) and quality printing/packaging construction.
A few years after reconstituting the business they are now trusted by the artists they serve and remember that that the relationship is two-way with neither being subservient to the other.
Usually record companies are stereotypically classed as money-grabbing bastards and, whilst Chrysalis has a need to be a robust business, that doesn't stop them from going the extra mile and never wanting to fleece the fans or the artists.