Lizard King Records

{{Short description|New York- and London-based label}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2015}} {{Use British English|date=August 2015}} {{update|date=October 2016}} {{single source|date=December 2025}}

'''Lizard King Records''' was a London-based independent record label founded in 2002 by Martin Heath and Dominic Hardisty.<ref name="hitquarters.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.hitquarters.com/index.php3?page=intrview/opar/intrview_MartinHeath.html|title=Interview With Martin Heath|date=Dec 12, 2005|access-date=Jun 20, 2010|publisher=HitQuarters|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180928134228if_/http://www.hitquarters.com/index.php3?page=intrview/opar/intrview_MartinHeath.html|archive-date=Sep 28, 2018}}</ref>

==History== The label signed US rock band the Killers in July 2003. In an interview with HitQuarters, Heath said "everyone in America had turned them down. They had been out for a year looking for a deal but nobody was interested."<ref name="hitquarters.com"/> The label then released the band's first single, "Mr. Brightside", on a limited press of 500 within the UK and then on a mass scale worldwide in 2004 and 2005. They also released second singles and a debut album before they were then signed by Island Records.<ref name="hitquarters.com"/>

Around 2006, Heath and Hardisty decided to go their separate ways. Hardisty formed a new label, Marrakesh Records.{{citation needed|date=December 2025}}

Lizard King's distribution goes through ADA in America and Pinnacle in the UK.{{citation needed|date=December 2025}} ==Artists==

*ME (band) *Clear Static *Drive-by Argument *Santigold (previously known as Santogold) *The Pierces *The Go *The Killers * Greater Good *Oxzana *Valentina Fel *Erasmo de la Parra

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Category:British independent record labels