Big Life

{{Short description|Record label}} {{for multi|the Night Ranger album|Big Life (album)|the song|Big Life (song)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2023}} {{Use British English|date=September 2013}} '''Big Life''' was a record label established in 1987 by Jazz Summers and Tim Parry.<ref name="mweek-2008">{{cite web|url = http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?storycode=1033998 |title = Universal Music Publishing buys Big Life |date=2008-04-23 |work = Music Week|accessdate = 2009-04-06 }}</ref> It featured hundreds of releases from artists such as The Orb, Stare, Yazz, Junior Reid, Coldcut, De La Soul, and Damage.<ref name="LarkinDM">{{cite book|title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of Dance Music|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=Virgin Books|date=1998|edition=First|isbn=0-7535-0252-6|page=35/6}}</ref>

In 1999, the label was put into receivership.<ref name="mweek-1999">{{cite web|url = http://www.allbusiness.com/retail-trade/miscellaneous-retail-retail-stores-not/4611527-1.html |work = AllBusiness.com |accessdate=2009-04-06 |date=1999-02-13 |last = Jeff Clark-Meads |first = Dominic Pride |title = U.k.'s Big Life in Hands of Receiver}}</ref> In 2008, it was purchased by Universal Music Publishing Group.<ref name="mweek-2008"/>

==See also== * Lists of record labels

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *[http://www.biglifemanagement.co.uk/ Big Life Web Site] *{{Discogs label}}

Category:British record labels Category:Record labels established in 1987 Category:Electronic music record labels Category:Pop record labels