Bronze Records

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Bronze Records

Founded	1971-1986, 2003-present
Founder	Gerry Bron
Distributing label	Island Records (1970s)
Genre	Rock music
Country of origin	England
Location	London, England
Official website	bronzerecords.co.uk

Bronze Records is an independent English record label setup in 1971 by music producer Gerry Bron, based in Chalk Farm, London.

Bron had been producing Uriah Heep for Vertigo Records near the end of that label's lifetime and he setup this new label for future Uriah Heep releases, along with Juicy Lucy, Richard Barnes and Colosseum. Others subsequent acts included Osibisa, Nostromo, Manfred Mann, The Real Kids, Sally Oldfield, Motörhead, The Damned, Girlschool and Hawkwind.

Original manufacturing and distribution was through Island Records, moving to EMI in 1977 and then onto Polydor Records in 1980. The label folded in financial difficulty in the mid-1980s with the catalogue being sold to Ray Richards' Legacy Records.

It was reported in early 2003 that Bron and Pete Brown had "renewed an association that went back over many years. They realised that they still had one outstanding interest in common - a love of music - particularly British music... So the Bronze label was launched again." ^[1]