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Mushroom Records is an Australian record company formed by Michael Gudinski and Ray Evans in 1972....

Mushroom Records is an Australian record company formed by Michael Gudinski and Ray Evans in 1972. After its sale in 1998, it merged into Festival Mushroom Records. As of 2006 it is one of the record labels operated by Warner Bros. Records. It is currently internationally known as WEA International Inc. Mushroom Records had its beginnings when Michael Gudinski was managing the band Healing Force who had the single "Golden Miles" released in July 1971. It shot to the top of the charts, but their record company at the time had already stopped producing the record as they didn't have faith in the record, so copies ran out. Michael Gudinski formed Mushroom Records to make sure that would never happen again. The label's inaugural release was an ambitious triple LP recording of the 1973 Sunbury Pop Festival, and over the next few years they signed a number of important Australian acts of the period including Madder Lake and Mackenzie Theory. Mushroom struggled to survive for its first two years and reportedly came close to folding on several occasions, but the label was dramatically pushed to the forefront of the Australian music scene in early 1975 following the massive success of