Track Records is an English record label founded in London in 1967 by Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp, then managers of hard rock band The Who. Artists whose works originally appeared on the Track label included The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Who, Arthur Brown, John's Children, Marsha Hunt, The Parliaments, Thunderclap Newman, Fairport Convention (pre-fame), Golden Earring, The Heartbreakers and Shakin' Stevens (pre-fame).
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Track Records is an English record label founded in London in 1967 by Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp, then managers of hard rock band The Who. Artists whose works originally appeared on the Track label included The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Who, Arthur Brown, John's Children, Marsha Hunt, The Parliaments, Thunderclap Newman, Fairport Convention (pre-fame), Golden Earring, The Heartbreakers and Shakin' Stevens (pre-fame).
Track have also been involved at one point with John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "Two Virgins" album (on the Apple label but stamped with a Track matrix (613012)) when EMI (Apple's distributor) refused to press the record. The Two Virgins album was later released by Apple and distributed in the UK by Transatlantic Records.
The Who's managers, Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp, had already grappled with the rigid confines of the established record companies, culminating in a court battle to release The Who from an onerous contract with producer Shel Talmy and the Brunswick label....
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