Pye Records | |
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Parent company | Pye Ltd., then ATV, a division of Lew Grade's ACC |
Founded | 1953 |
Defunct | 1989 |
Genre | Various |
Country of origin | UK |
Pye Records was a British record label. Its best known artists were Lonnie Donegan (1956–1969), Petula Clark (1957–1971), the Searchers (1963–1967), the Kinks (1964–1971), Sandie Shaw (1964–1971), Status Quo (1968–1971) and Brotherhood of Man (1975–1979). The label changed its name to PRT Records (distributing as Precision Records & Tapes) in 1980, before being briefly reactivated as Pye Records in 2006.