Library Rock's Backpages

Island Records: The man who sold the world?

David Toop, The Times, 2 August 1989

Chris Blackwell, the idiosyncratic founder of Island Records, has sold out to one of the music industry giants, Polygram. David Toop asks whether the spirit of the largest of the independent record companies, famous for its success with the unconventional, will survive.

Total word count of piece: 901

Subscribe

Becoming a member is easy. Membership gives you access to all the thousands of articles in the library.

Click here to go to Subscribe page.

Click here for academic and other group subscriptions.