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The Rocket Record Company

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The Rocket Record Company was a record label founded by Elton John, along with Bernie Taupin, Gus Dudgeon, Steve Brown and others, in 1973. [1]

67 relations: A&M Records, Alan Hull, Anne-Marie (singer), Bernie Taupin, Blue (Scottish band), Blue Moves, Brenda Russell, Candle in the Wind 1997, Chris Difford, Cliff Richard, Colin Blunstone, Davey Johnstone, David A. Stewart, DJM Records, Don't Go Breaking My Heart, Dramatis, Ed Sheeran, Elton John, Fred Wedlock, Gus Dudgeon, Hudson Brothers, Iggy Pop, Island Records, Jimmie's Chicken Shack, Jo Lemaire, Johnny Warman, Judie Tzuke, Junior Campbell, Kiki Dee, Leon Russell, List of record labels, Lulu (singer), Made in England (Elton John album), Mal Pope, MCA Records, Melody Maker, Mercury Records, Neil Sedaka, Nigel Olsson, Peachtree Road (album), Pete Waterman, Phonogram Inc., Platinum Weird, PolyGram, Randy Edelman, RCA, RCA Records, Record label, Rocket Man (song), Ryan Downe, ..., Seagram, Solution (band), Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word, Squeeze (band), Stackridge, Stock Aitken Waterman, The Big Picture (Elton John album), The Island Def Jam Music Group, The Lambrettas, The Moir Sisters, The Stooges, The Union (Elton John and Leon Russell album), United Kingdom, United States, Universal Music Group, Virgin EMI Records, 1973 in music. Expand index (17 more) »

A&M Records

A&M Records was an American record label founded as an independent company by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in 1962.

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Alan Hull

James Alan Hull (20 February 1945 – 17 November 1995) was an English singer-songwriter and founding member of the Tyneside folk rock band Lindisfarne.

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Anne-Marie (singer)

Anne-Marie Rose Nicholson (born 7 April 1991) is an English singer and songwriter.

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Bernie Taupin

Bernard John Taupin (born 22 May 1950) is an English lyricist, poet, and singer, best known for his long-term collaboration with Elton John, writing the lyrics for the majority of the star's songs.

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Blue (Scottish band)

Blue are a Scottish pop rock band, formed in Glasgow in 1973.

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Blue Moves

Blue Moves is the eleventh official album release by Elton John.

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Brenda Russell

Brenda Russell (née Gordon; born April 8, 1949, Brooklyn, New York) is an American singer-songwriter and keyboardist.

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Candle in the Wind 1997

"Candle in the Wind 1997" is a song by Bernie Taupin and Elton John, a re-written and re-recorded version of their 1974 song "Candle in the Wind".

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Chris Difford

Christopher Henry "Chris" Difford (born 4 November 1954) is an English singer, musician, songwriter, and record producer.

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Cliff Richard

Sir Cliff Richard, (born Harry Rodger Webb, 14 October 1940) is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor and philanthropist.

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Colin Blunstone

Colin Edward Michael Blunstone (born 24 June 1945) is an English singer, songwriter and musician.

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Davey Johnstone

David William Logan "Davey" Johnstone (born 6 May 1951, Edinburgh, Scotland) is a Scottish rock guitarist and vocalist, best known for his work with Elton John.

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David A. Stewart

David Allan Stewart (born 9 September 1952) is an English musician, songwriter and record producer, best known for Eurythmics, his successful professional partnership with Annie Lennox.

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DJM Records

DJM Records (also known as Dick James Music) was the British independent record label, set up in the late 1960s by British music publisher Dick James.

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Don't Go Breaking My Heart

"Don't Go Breaking My Heart" is a duet by Elton John and Kiki Dee.

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Dramatis

Dramatis are an English synthpop band formed in the early 1980s.

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Ed Sheeran

Edward Christopher Sheeran, (born 17 February 1991) is an English singer, songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actor.

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Elton John

Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer, pianist, and composer.

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Fred Wedlock

Fred Wedlock (23 May 1942 – 4 March 2010) was a folk singer best known for his UK hit single "The Oldest Swinger In Town".

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Gus Dudgeon

Angus Boyd "Gus" Dudgeon (30 September 1942 – 21 July 2002) was an English record producer, most notable for production of many of Elton John's most acclaimed recordings.

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Hudson Brothers

The Hudson Brothers is an American music group formed in Portland, Oregon in the 1970s and consisting of Bill Hudson, Brett Hudson and Mark Hudson.

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Iggy Pop

James Newell Osterberg Jr. (born April 21, 1947), known professionally by his stage name Iggy Pop, and designated the "Godfather of Punk", is an American singer, songwriter, musician, producer and actor.

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Island Records

Island Records is a British-Jamaican record label that operates as a division of Universal Music Group (UMG).

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Jimmie's Chicken Shack

Jimmie's Chicken Shack is an American alternative rock band from Annapolis, Maryland.

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Jo Lemaire

Jo Lemaire (born 5 January 1956) is a Belgian singer born in Gembloux, Namur.

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Johnny Warman

Johnny Warman was born John Robert Waughman in Bethnal Green, London.

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Judie Tzuke

Judie Tzuke (born Judie Myers, 3 April 1956) is an English singer-songwriter.

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Junior Campbell

Junior Campbell (born William Campbell Jnr, 31 May 1947) is a Scottish composer, songwriter and musician.

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Kiki Dee

Pauline Matthews (born 6 March 1947), better known by her stage name Kiki Dee, is an English singer born in Little Horton, Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire.

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Leon Russell

Leon Russell (born Claude Russell Bridges; April 2, 1942 – November 13, 2016) was an American musician and songwriter who was involved with numerous bestselling pop music records over the course of his 60-year career.

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List of record labels

For lists of record labels, see.

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Lulu (singer)

Lulu Kennedy-Cairns OBE (born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie; 3 November 1948) is a Scottish singer-songwriter.

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Made in England (Elton John album)

Made in England is the twenty-fourth studio album by English singer-songwriter Elton John, released in 1995 and produced by him and Greg Penny, the first time since Leather Jackets without Chris Thomas.

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Mal Pope

Maldwyn "Mal" Pope (born 18 May 1960) is a Welsh musician and composer, who is notable for his contribution to music theatre portraying Welsh national identities and themes.

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MCA Records

MCA Records was an American record label owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group (now Universal Music Group), which the label was part of until its dissolution in 2003.

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Melody Maker

Melody Maker was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies, and—according to its publisher IPC Media—the earliest.

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Mercury Records

Mercury Records is an American-based record label owned by Universal Music Group.

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Neil Sedaka

Neil Sedaka (born March 13, 1939) is an American pop singer, pianist, composer and record producer.

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Nigel Olsson

Nigel Olsson (born 10 February 1949) is an English rock drummer and singer best known for his long-time affiliation with Elton John.

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Peachtree Road (album)

Peachtree Road is the twenty-seventh studio album by British singer-songwriter Elton John, released in 2004.

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Pete Waterman

Peter Alan Waterman, OBE (born 15 January 1947) is an English record producer, songwriter, radio and club DJ, television presenter, president of Coventry Bears rugby league club and a keen railway enthusiast.

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Phonogram Inc.

Phonogram Incorporated was started in 1970 as a successor to Philips Phonographic Industries, a unit of the Grammophon-Philips Group (GPG), a joint venture of Philips N.V. of the Netherlands and Siemens A.G. of Germany.

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Platinum Weird

Platinum Weird is a musical collaboration formed in 2004 between Dave Stewart and Kara DioGuardi.

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PolyGram

PolyGram Entertainment is a film and TV production company owned by Universal Music Group.

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Randy Edelman

Randy Edelman (born June 10, 1947) is an American musician, producer, and composer for film and television known for his work in comedy films.

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RCA

The RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded as the Radio Corporation of America in 1919.

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RCA Records

RCA Records (formerly legally traded as the RCA Records Label) is an American record label owned by Sony Music, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

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Record label

A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos.

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Rocket Man (song)

"Rocket Man" (officially titled "Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time)") is a song composed by Elton John and Bernie Taupin and originally performed by John.

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Ryan Downe

Ryan Downe is an American musician and audio engineer.

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Seagram

Seagram Company Ltd. (formerly traded as Seagram's) was a Canadian multinational conglomerate formerly headquartered in Montreal, Quebec.

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Solution (band)

Solution were a Dutch progressive rock band that existed from 1970 to 1983, during which time they released six studio albums and one live album.

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Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word

"Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" is a song written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin.

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Squeeze (band)

Squeeze are a British rock band that came to prominence in the United Kingdom during the new wave period of the late 1970s, and continued recording successfully in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Stackridge

Stackridge were a British rock group which had its greatest success in the early 1970s.

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Stock Aitken Waterman

Stock Aitken Waterman (abbreviated as SAW) are an English songwriting and record producing trio consisting of Mike Stock, Matt Aitken, and Pete Waterman.

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The Big Picture (Elton John album)

The Big Picture is the twenty-fifth studio album by British singer-songwriter Elton John, released in 1997.

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The Island Def Jam Music Group

The Island Def Jam Music Group (IDJMG) was an American record label group formed in 1998 by combining the operations of 14+ record labels including Island Records, Def Jam Recordings, and Mercury Records.

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The Lambrettas

The Lambrettas are an English Mod Revival band, first active in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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The Moir Sisters

The Moir Sisters was an Australian pop vocal trio from the mid-1970s.

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The Stooges

The Stooges, also known as Iggy and the Stooges, were an American rock band formed in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1967 by singer Iggy Pop, guitarist Ron Asheton, drummer Scott Asheton, and bassist Dave Alexander.

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The Union (Elton John and Leon Russell album)

The Union is a collaboration studio album by singer-songwriters Elton John and Leon Russell, released on 19 October 2010 in the US and on 25 October in the UK.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group (also known in the United States as UMG Recordings, Inc. and abbreviated as UMG) is an American global music corporation that is a subsidiary of the French media conglomerate Vivendi.

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Virgin EMI Records

Virgin EMI Records is a British record label owned by the Universal Music Group that was formed in 2013.

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1973 in music

This is a list of music-related events in 1973.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rocket_Record_Company

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