{{Short description|British record label}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Use British English|date=January 2016}} {{Infobox record label | name = Dedicated | image = | image_bg = | parent = | founded = 1990 | founder = Doug D'Arcy and BMG group | defunct = | distributor = | genre = Neo-psychedelia<br />Alternative rock<br />Indie music | country = United Kingdom | location = London, England | url = }}
'''Dedicated''' was a British independent record label that released music between 1990 and 1998<ref name="greer-spin">{{cite journal | year = 1992 | first = Jim | last = Greer | author-link = James Greer (writer)| journal = Spin | title = Keep in the Family | page = 48 | issue = January 1992 }}</ref> by Spiritualized, Spacemen 3, Global Communication, Beth Orton (in the U.S.), Chapterhouse, Cranes and others. It was based in London and founded by Doug D'Arcy.<ref name="greer-spin" /><ref>{{cite web | url = https://creativeconomy.britishcouncil.org/people/doug-darcy/ | publisher = British Council | title = Doug D'Arcy | access-date = 21 February 2018 | archive-date = 4 September 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120904102333/http://creativeconomy.britishcouncil.org/people/doug-darcy/ | url-status = dead }}</ref>
Dedicated were bought by Arista Records who were in turn bought by Sony Music Entertainment.
==History == Dedicated Records was founded by Doug D'Arcy after leaving Chrysalis Records where he had been managing director, later president<ref name="bbc-r2">{{cite web | url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/events/greatdebate2004/panelists.shtml | accessdate = 26 February 2017 | publisher = BBC Radio 2 | title = The Pannellists | quote = Doug D'Arcy began in the music business in 1968 as a booking agent and manager at the Ellis-Wright Agency which became Chrysalis. He worked at Chrysalis Records as the Managing Director and then President in 1986. After its sale to EMI, Doug started Dedicated Records, a joint venture with BMG, featuring Spaceman 3, Spiritualized, Cranes and in the US, Beth Orton.}}</ref><ref name="musictank">{{cite web | url = http://www.musictank.co.uk/resources/speaker-biographies/doug-darcy | accessdate = 26 February 2017 | publisher = University of Westminster | title = Doug D'Arcy – AIM Board, former President Chrysalis Dedicated | archive-date = 27 October 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071027230402/https://www.musictank.co.uk/resources/speaker-biographies/doug-darcy | url-status = dead }}</ref> and director of the Chrysalis Group. It was a joint venture with BMG group<ref name="bbc-r2" /><ref name="musictank" /> (and was eventually amalgamated into the main Group via Deconstruction Records). Dedicated Records signed Spacemen 3 from Fire Records (UK), who split up after signing, therefore Dedicated inherited offshoot band Spiritualized.<ref name="morse-2009">{{cite book | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=IWI6keyMDxQC | title= Spacemen 3 and the Birth of Spiritualized | author= Erik Morse | author-link= Erik Morse |year= 2009 | publisher= Omnibus Press | isbn = 9780857121042}}</ref>
Eventually, in the US, Dedicated Artists were transferred to Arista Records, although by that point in time the only groups it represented were Spiritualized and Beth Orton (U.S. only).
==Artists== {{columns-list|colwidth=18em| * 30 Amp Fuse * Balloon<ref>Jenkins, Mark. "[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1992/06/26/balloon-floating-on-jazzy-gravity/fea42041-14f3-4650-9c51-16d8e0009386/ Balloon Floating On Jazzy 'Gravity']", The Washington Post, 26 June 1992, p. N16.</ref> * Beth Orton (in the U.S.)<ref name="bbc-r2" /> * Butterfly Child * Cardinal * Catwalk<ref name="greer-spin" /> * Chapterhouse<ref name="greer-spin" /> * Comet * Cranes<ref name="bbc-r2" /> * dBh * The Family Cat * Global Communication * Hum * Linoleum * Long River Train * Muler * Mulu * Other People's Money * Reverberation * Shere Khan * Silkscreen * Skeleton Key * Sonus * Spacemen 3<ref name="morse-2009" /> * Spiritualized<ref name="greer-spin" /><ref name="morse-2009" /> * Synergy * This Picture<ref name="greer-spin" /> * Velo-Deluxe }}
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==External links== *{{Discogs label|863-Dedicated}}
Category:Record labels established in 1983 Category:Record labels disestablished in 1999 Category:Indie rock record labels Category:British independent record labels