Strange Fruit Records

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Strange Fruit Records is an independent record label in the United Kingdom. It is a division of Pinnacle Entertainment Limited.

The label, established by Clive Selwood and John Peel in 1986, is the primary distributor of BBC concert recordings, including Peel Sessions albums.

Strange Fruit also licenses albums released on other labels, such as Latent Records in Canada, for release in the UK, and re-releases older out-of-print albums by British classic rock artists such as Small Faces, Mott the Hoople, Humble Pie, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

It is possible that the name came from the song written by Abel Meeropol and famously performed by Billie Holiday, itself a reference to racially motivated lynchings.

Contents

[edit] Strange Fruit Records Catalogue (Peel Sessions, BBC)

Individual artists

[edit] Compilations

  • SFRLP200 21 Years Of Alternative Radio 1
  • SFRLP111 Joy Division

[edit] Other albums

  • SFRSCD016 or SFRSCD079 - Tom Paxton Live In Concert (recorded in London, England in 1971 and 1972, released 1998)
  • SFRSCD082 - Inspiral Carpets (1999)
  • SFRSCD094 - Joy Division (2000)
  • SFNT015 - Icicle Works "Radio 1 Sessions - The Evening Show" - Four track 12" EP, recorded 1982, released 1988.

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