Manticore Records

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Manticore Records
Founded	1973 (1973)
Founder	Greg Lake
Status	Active
Distributor(s)	Atlantic Records (1973–1975) Motown Records (1975–1977)
Genre	Various
Country of origin	UK
Location	London
Official website	manticorerecords.com

Manticore Records is a record label launched by the Manticore production company in 1973. These companies were owned by the members of the progressive rock group Emerson, Lake & Palmer (commonly known as ELP.) The manticore symbol was first featured in the artwork for the second ELP album Tarkus.

Initially, the label was jointly owned with Island Records, but that partnership was dissolved. The label was distributed by Atlantic Records from 1973 until 1975. Afterwards, Motown Records handled distribution from 1975 until the label shut down in 1977. Although Manticore was inactive for many years most of its recordings have been re-issued by other labels.

It was relaunched in 2017 under the authorization from the Greg Lake estate, stating one of his last wishes was to bring the label back. Live in Piacenza is the first release on the new incarnation of Manticore,^[1] released on 7 December 2017. The second was the last album Greg Lake produced before his death, Moonchild by Annie Barbazza and Max Repetti. The third one was John Greaves', Life Size.

Artists[]

• Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, Italian prog-rock band, also known as Banco
• Emerson, Lake & Palmer, British prog-rock supergroup, also known as ELP
• John Greaves, British bass guitarist, a member of Henry Cow^[2]
• Hanson, British rock band (not the US pop trio)
• Keith Christmas
• Little Richard
• Peter Sinfield
• Premiata Forneria Marconi, also known as PFM
• Stray Dog

See also[]

• List of record labels

References[]

External links[]

• Manticore official website
• Manticore album discography
• Manticore album information and record scans

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