Revolver Music

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Revolver Music, or Revolver Records, was created by Paul Birch 1979 as a guitar music label. Its sister labels are FM Records and Heavy Metal Records.

Revolver is best known for signing the Manchester band, The Stone Roses, who released one single, "Sally Cinnamon", with Revolver under the "Black Records" label.[1] The Black Records label was a division of FM-Revolver that was initially created as an indie imprint to promote the Stone Roses, and later used for releases by Crazyhead, The Pleasureheads and The Wild Flowers.

Revolver signed artists such as UK Subs and The Vibrators. The label also released the first, self-titled album by Jane's Addiction.^{[citation needed]}

Other artists who released records on Revolver include:

• Ausgang
• Bruce Cockburn
• Be Bop Deluxe
• Karen Lawrence
• The Plasmatics
• Francis X and the Bushmen
• Jayne County (aka Wayne County
• Tyla (From Dogs D'Amour)
• Peat Moss
• 54-40
• Vain
• Tonic
• Norman Connors
• Rose Royce
• Biomechanical

Revolver is distributed by Universal Records in the UK and Canada and by JVC in Japan.

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