• 2023-04-18. "BUSINESS PEOPLE; Polygram Records Names President". The New York Times. 1985-10-18. Retrieved 2021-01-27. "PolyGram buys A&M Records for $500...
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    PolyGram was sold to Seagram, which owned Universal Pictures and Universal Music Group (UMG), for $10 billion. Seagram sold off some of PolyGram's assets...
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    Vannelli, Art Porter, Will Downing, and Incognito. When Universal and Polygram merged in 1998, Verve's holdings were merged with Universal's GRP Recording...
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  • Jamaica, and was eventually sold to PolyGram in 1989. Island and A&M Records, another label recently acquired by PolyGram, were both at the time the largest...
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    with all UMG labels and with its PolyGram Entertainment film and TV production unit. "Universal Music Relaunching Polygram, Announces 'Story of Motown' as...
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    has since remained popular for more than three decades. Chan signed to PolyGram Records, Hong Kong (寶麗金) in 1986 and reached her career peak between the...
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    label within the Universal Music Group. In May 1998, Seagram purchased PolyGram and merged it with Universal Music Group in early 1999. Seagram's entertainment...
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    The Grammophon-Philips Group (GPG) reorganised to create PolyGram, from Polydor and PhonoGram. The Polydor label continued to run as a subsidiary label...
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  • formed the Grammophon-Philips Group joint venture (GPG), which later became PolyGram in 1972. UK pressings were manufactured at the company's large factory...
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    A&M Records.com. 2006. "At Polygram NV's first annual meeting as..." Los Angeles Times. May 2, 1990. "Seagram buys PolyGram from Philips for $10.6bn"....
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  • director Mel Smith. In 1988, Michael Kuhn of PolyGram started to work with the company and in 1989 PolyGram acquired 49% of the company and they jointly...
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  • music videos and commercials, Propaganda entered into a deal in 1988 with PolyGram which meant that the Dutch media company would pay for Propaganda's film...
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  • "Polygram TV, Ryan link up". Variety. Archived from the original on 2021-11-21. Retrieved 2021-11-21. Littleton, Cynthia (1999-04-23). "Polygram TV...
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  • Pictures library (owned by EMKA, Ltd.), all 1996–99 PolyGram Filmed Entertainment films (as well as PolyGram Visual Programming), USA Films, StudioCanal (International...
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    by Gramophon-Philips Group (PolyGram) in 1971. It has been known as Universal Music México since 1999, following PolyGram's merger with UMG through the...
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    with PolyGram/Mercury Records in 1975. In that year, she relocated with her mother to Nashville, Tennessee. Over the next several years, PolyGram/Mercury...
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  • Ted Field. It soon became a division of PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. In 1999, after Seagram merged PolyGram into Universal Pictures, Interscope Communications...
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  • Seagram completed its seven-month $10.6 billion plan to acquire PolyGram. As a result, PolyGram's music division was merged into Universal Music Group. Geffen...
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    financial troubles and was faced with folding while at Sony. In 1994, PolyGram purchased Sony's 50% stake in Def Jam Recordings—subsequently bringing...
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  • as a joint venture between PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Universal Pictures. Gramercy was the distributor of PolyGram films in the United States and...
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    and two videos featuring live performances of Xymox songs from the 4AD, Polygram, and independent eras. In September 2004, a Best of Clan of Xymox album...
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    and others. In 1998, PolyGram was purchased by Seagram, and merged into Universal.[citation needed] In June 1998, after PolyGram's merger with Universal...
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    Focus World Rogue Pictures (pre-2010) Working Title Films WT2 Productions PolyGram Filmed Entertainment film library (post-March 1996) Castle Films/Universal...
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    Deutsche Grammophon, Philips Records, and Polydor to become PolyGram in 1972. That year, PolyGram bought Mercury from NAPC. Mercury's corporate name was changed...
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    star in David Fincher's thriller The Game, but its production company, Polygram, dropped her from the project after disagreements over her role. Foster...
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  • United States divisions of PolyGram including PolyGram Music Group, PolyGram Video, PolyMedia, PolyGram Special Markets, PolyGram Merchandising, Independent...
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  • "COMPANY NEWS; MGM SAYS IT WILL BUY POLYGRAM'S MOVIE LIBRARY". The New York Times. p. 3. "Warner Bros., PolyGram Near Financing Deal". Los Angeles Times...
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  • bought it in 1988. PolyGram purchased the label from MCA in 1993, followed by MCA successor Universal Music Group, which acquired PolyGram in 1999. Motown...
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  • Filmworks becomes Casablanca Record & Filmworks 1980 PolyGram renames Casablanca Record & Filmworks to PolyGram Pictures MCA Videocassette‚ Inc. (later Universal...
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  • PolyGram Polska Sp. z o.o. (PolyGram Poland), was a Polish subsidiary of PolyGram. The label was founded in 1994 in Warsaw when independent record label...
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