Bronze Records

Bronze Records was a British independent record label based in London, specializing in Hard Rock and Heavy Metal. About the label appeared in the 1970s, albums of Uriah Heep, Manfred Mann's Earth Band or Motörhead.

History

About his father, the Bron Artists Ltd.. operation, Gerry Bron came in contact with Gene Pitney and took over its management. He went into his father's company, which took more artists like Manfred Mann and Uriah Heep under contract. In 1971, Bron Bronze Records in order to take the publications of the bands managed by him into his own hands can. The idea for the name came from the former Uriah Heep - drummer Ian Clarke. Bron, who had collected during his work for Vertigo Records experience in music production, took more bands under contract and published in the 1970s with considerable commercial success albums by bands such as Osibisa, Hawkwind, Girlschool and Motörhead. After circa 1983 around several major bands had left the label, among them Uriah Heep, Motörhead and Girlschool, it fell because of declining sales in financial difficulties. For this reason, in 1986 all the rights were sold on Label Catalog at Castle Communications. The label since the early 2000s again active, the current status is not known.

Important Artists (Selection)

• Colosseum
• Girlschool
• Hawkwind
• Juicy Lucy
• Manfred Mann's Earth Band
• Motörhead
• Osibisa
• Sally Oldfield
• The Damned
• Uriah Heep