Plaque on wall of Island Records Building; Notting Hill; Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea; London; UK;

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Island Records is a Jamaican multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group. It was founded in 1959 by Chris Blackwell, Graeme Goodall, and Leslie Kong in Jamaica, and was eventually sold to PolyGram in 1989. Island and A&M Records, another label recently acquired by PolyGram, were both at the time the largest independent record labels in history, with Island having exerted a major influence on the progressive music scene in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s. Notting Hill is a district of West London, England, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Notting Hill is known for being a cosmopolitan and multicultural neighbourhood, hosting the annual Notting Hill Carnival and the Portobello Road Market. From around 1870, Notting Hill had an association with artists.

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Size: 4288px × 2848px
Location: Notting Hill, London, UK
Photo credit: © Grazyna Bonati / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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