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Chris Blackwell

@chrisblackwell

English record producer

Building Island Records Ltd. as Founder · United Kingdom

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Key facts

Lived
1937–2009
Educated at
Harrow School

About

Chris Blackwell is a record producer and composer, born in 1937 in London. They studied at Harrow School.

In context

Island Records Ltd. was founded in 1962 and closed in 1999, after 37 years. Among the 10 other record company companies founded in the 1960s we hold, those that closed lasted a median of 3 years, so this one outlasted most of them.

Contribution

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