I.R.S. (International Record Syndicate) Records was a record label, started in the United States in 1979 by Miles Copeland III along with Jay Boberg and Carl Grasso. Miles was also the manager of Wishbone Ash, The Police, and later, Sting, as well as other bands. I.R.S. was the sister label of Copeland's Illegal Records (UK).
I.R.S. releases were distributed by A&M; Records until 1985, by MCA Records until 1990, and finally by EMI (which bought t...
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I.R.S. (International Record Syndicate) Records was a record label, started in the United States in 1979 by Miles Copeland III along with Jay Boberg and Carl Grasso. Miles was also the manager of Wishbone Ash, The Police, and later, Sting, as well as other bands. I.R.S. was the sister label of Copeland's Illegal Records (UK).
I.R.S. releases were distributed by A&M; Records until 1985, by MCA Records until 1990, and finally by EMI (which bought the label in 1994) until the label folded in 1996.
Acts on I.R.S. included R.E.M., The Animals, Wishbone Ash, Marillion (US & Canada only), Karel Fialka Top 10 hit with "Hey Matthew", The English Beat, Nuclear Assault, Human Switchboard, The Cramps, The Go-Go's, The Fleshtones, Oingo Boingo, Squeeze, Suburban Lawns, Over the Rhine, The Buzzcocks, The Alarm, Gary Numan, Wall of Voodoo, General Public, John Cale, Belinda Carlisle, Camper Van Beethoven, Gren, Dread Zeppelin, The Surfing Brides, Show Of hands, with Randell Kirsch, LuAnn Olson and...
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