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Go! Discs was a London-based record label, launched in 1983 from offices in Wendell Road, Shepherd's Bush, by Andy Macdonald and Lesley Symons. The pair founded the label after Macdonald left his job as press officer at Stiff Records, and Symons provided the seed funding. The first signing to the label was Billy Bragg and early releases also came from Sheffield band The Box and Hull band The Housemartins. Records by the latter's spin-off group The Beautiful South were subsequently issued. Key staff contributors, following a move to Hammersmith, included comedian Phill Jupitus and Cathal Smyth (Madness' Chas Smash). Go! Beat Records was launched as a subsidiary for artists like Beats International, Gabrielle and Portishead. In 1992, Paul Weller signed for the main Go! Discs label.

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  • Go! Discs Records ist ein britisches Musiklabel. Das Label wurde im Januar 1983 in London vom ehemaligen Stiff-Records-Pressemanager Andy MacDonald gegründet. Grund, so MacDonald laut New Musical Express (17. Oktober 1987): „Ich dachte einfach: das ist doch einen Versuch wert, und es schien mir ein guter Weg zu sein, das was ich gerne hörte, ins Radio zu kriegen.“ (”I just thought it was worth trying and it seemed a good way of getting some of the things I liked to hear onto the radio.“) Erste Künstler auf Go! Discs waren mit der 12″-EP „No Time for Talk“. Für kommerziellen Erfolg ab 1985 sorgten vor allem Billy Bragg und die Housemartins. Weitere Künstler und Bands auf Go! Discs in den ersten Jahren: , , , , , , The La’s, . Lukrative Charthits lieferten später die aus den Housemartins entstandenen The Beautiful South und Beats International. 1992 unterschrieb Paul Weller bei Go! Discs. Go! Beat Records wurde gegründet als Ableger für Dance-Musik wie von Gabrielle oder Portishead. 1996 trat MacDonald zurück, als Polygram sich die Mehrheit an Go! Discs sicherte. Er gründete daraufhin . Paul Weller nahm er dorthin mit. (de)
  • Go! Discs was a London-based record label, launched in 1983 from offices in Wendell Road, Shepherd's Bush, by Andy Macdonald and Lesley Symons. The pair founded the label after Macdonald left his job as press officer at Stiff Records, and Symons provided the seed funding. The first signing to the label was Billy Bragg and early releases also came from Sheffield band The Box and Hull band The Housemartins. Records by the latter's spin-off group The Beautiful South were subsequently issued. Key staff contributors, following a move to Hammersmith, included comedian Phill Jupitus and Cathal Smyth (Madness' Chas Smash). Go! Beat Records was launched as a subsidiary for artists like Beats International, Gabrielle and Portishead. In 1992, Paul Weller signed for the main Go! Discs label. In 1996, Macdonald resigned when PolyGram acquired a majority stake in the label, which folded not too long afterwards. However, Go! Discs' dance offshoot Go! Beat Records continued and became a unit in the PolyGram group. In 1999, Go! Discs was revived, but it is now in dormancy along with Go! Beat. The Go! Discs catalogue now operates under EMI Records, a division of the Universal Music Group. It was rebranded from Virgin EMI Records in June 2020. (en)
  • Go! Discs – niezależna brytyjska wytwórnia płytowa, założona w 1983 roku w Londynie przez Andy’ego Macdonalda, specjalizująca się w wydawaniu płyt z muzyką spod znaku indie rocka, brit popu, downtempo i trip hopu. Wydała albumy takich artystów jak: The Housemartins, Billy Bragg, , Paul Weller, Gabrielle i Portishead. (pl)
  • Go! Discs Records foi uma gravadora de Hammersmith, Londres, lançada em 1983 por e . Com artistas como Billy Bragg, The Housemartins e The Beautiful South, se tornando um rótulo destacado. (pt)
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  • Andy Macdonald, Lesley Symons (en)
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  • Hammersmith, London (en)
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  • Go! Discs – niezależna brytyjska wytwórnia płytowa, założona w 1983 roku w Londynie przez Andy’ego Macdonalda, specjalizująca się w wydawaniu płyt z muzyką spod znaku indie rocka, brit popu, downtempo i trip hopu. Wydała albumy takich artystów jak: The Housemartins, Billy Bragg, , Paul Weller, Gabrielle i Portishead. (pl)
  • Go! Discs Records foi uma gravadora de Hammersmith, Londres, lançada em 1983 por e . Com artistas como Billy Bragg, The Housemartins e The Beautiful South, se tornando um rótulo destacado. (pt)
  • Go! Discs Records ist ein britisches Musiklabel. Das Label wurde im Januar 1983 in London vom ehemaligen Stiff-Records-Pressemanager Andy MacDonald gegründet. Grund, so MacDonald laut New Musical Express (17. Oktober 1987): „Ich dachte einfach: das ist doch einen Versuch wert, und es schien mir ein guter Weg zu sein, das was ich gerne hörte, ins Radio zu kriegen.“ (”I just thought it was worth trying and it seemed a good way of getting some of the things I liked to hear onto the radio.“) Go! Beat Records wurde gegründet als Ableger für Dance-Musik wie von Gabrielle oder Portishead. (de)
  • Go! Discs was a London-based record label, launched in 1983 from offices in Wendell Road, Shepherd's Bush, by Andy Macdonald and Lesley Symons. The pair founded the label after Macdonald left his job as press officer at Stiff Records, and Symons provided the seed funding. The first signing to the label was Billy Bragg and early releases also came from Sheffield band The Box and Hull band The Housemartins. Records by the latter's spin-off group The Beautiful South were subsequently issued. Key staff contributors, following a move to Hammersmith, included comedian Phill Jupitus and Cathal Smyth (Madness' Chas Smash). Go! Beat Records was launched as a subsidiary for artists like Beats International, Gabrielle and Portishead. In 1992, Paul Weller signed for the main Go! Discs label. (en)
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