Go! Discs

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Go! Discs was a London-based record label, launched in 1983 from offices in Wendell Road, Shepherd's Bush, by Andy Macdonald and Lesley Symons. The pair founded the label after Macdonald left his job as press officer at Stiff Records, and Symons provided the seed funding. The first signing to the label was Billy Bragg and early releases also came from Sheffield band The Box and Hull band The Housemartins. Records by the latter's spin-off group The Beautiful South were subsequently issued. Key staff contributors, following a move to Hammersmith, included comedian Phill Jupitus and Cathal Smyth (Madness' Chas Smash). Go! Beat Records was launched as a subsidiary for artists like Beats International, Gabrielle and Portishead. In 1992, Paul Weller signed for the main Go! Discs label.

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Go! Discs
Parent company	Independent (1983–1996, 1999–present) Universal Music Group (1996–present; back catalogue)
Founded	1983; 1999 (relaunch)
Founder	Andy Macdonald, Lesley Symons
Defunct	1996
Status	Dormant
Distributor(s)	Chrysalis Records (1983–1996) Mercury Records UK (back catalogue, 1996–2013) Virgin EMI Records (back catalogue, 2013–2020) EMI Records (back catalogue, 2020–present)
Genre	Various
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Location	Hammersmith, London
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In 1996, Macdonald resigned when PolyGram acquired a majority stake in the label,^[1] which folded not too long afterwards. However, Go! Discs' dance offshoot Go! Beat Records continued and became a unit in the PolyGram group. In 1999, Go! Discs was revived, but it is now in dormancy along with Go! Beat.

The Go! Discs catalogue now operates under EMI Records, a division of the Universal Music Group. It was rebranded from Virgin EMI Records in June 2020.