Music for Pleasure (record label)
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Music for Pleasure redirects here. For the album by The Damned, see Music for Pleasure (album).
Music for Pleasure (or MFP) was a United Kingdom record label that issued budget-priced albums of popular and classical music. Albums were subsequently released under the MFP label in Australia (MFP-A) and South Africa.
The label was set up in 1965 as a joint venture between EMI, which provided the source material, and the publisher Hamlyn, which handled distribution. The MFP catalogue consisted of both original material and reissues of existing EMI recordings, including records by "name" artists such as The Beach Boys, Blondie, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, The Animals and The Beatles.
[edit] Notable releases
- The Pink Floyd compilation Relics was reissued on the MFP label as MFP 50397.
- Kenny Rogers second solo album was issued on MFP in the late 1980s, after the United Artists/Liberty labels deleted a lot of their albums. This was one of the few albums from that label to remain in print.
- The Beatles compilation double album, Rock 'n' Roll Music, was reissued on the Music for Pleasure label in 1980 as two separate single albums (MFP 50506 and MFP 50507). The live album The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl was reissued on MFP in 1984.
