Ace Records (United Kingdom)

Ace Records
Parent companyAce Records Ltd.
Founded1978 (1978)
FounderTed Carroll, Roger Armstrong, Trevor Churchill
GenreVarious, reissues
Country of originEngland
LocationLondon
Official websitewww.acerecords.co.uk

Ace Records Ltd. is a British record label founded in 1978.[1] Initially the company only gained permission from the similarly named label based in Mississippi to use the name in the UK, but eventually also acquired the rights to publish their recordings.[2] When Chiswick Records' pop side was licensed to EMI in 1984, Ace switched to more licensing and reissuing work. In the 1980s it also gained the licensing for Modern Records,[2] and its follow-up company Kent Records, whilst in the 1990s, the company bought the labels including all original master tapes.

  1. ^ Komara, Edward (Ed.) (2006), Encyclopedia of the Blues, Routledge, ISBN 978-0415926997
  2. ^ a b [1] Archived 19 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine