Eagle Rock Entertainment is an international producer and distributor of music films and programming. It operates two record labels (Eagle Records and Armoury Records), a full-service production company (Eagle Rock Productions) and a music publishing subsidiary (Eagle-i Music).

History

Eagle Rock Entertainment was founded in April 1997 by Terry Shand, Geoff Kempin and Julian Paul, three former colleagues at

Castle Communications Castle Communications, also known as Castle Music, was a British independent record label and home video distributor founded in 1983 by Terry Shand, Cliff Dane, and Jon Beecher. Its video imprint was called Castle Vision. The label's producti ...

, with capital coming from BMG. It was later acquired by

Edel Records Edel SE & Co. KGaA is a German independent media company based in Hamburg. As a label and publishing group, it also operates marketing and sales for artists and smaller music labels. The repertoire of the Edel labels includes dance, rock and po ...

and in 2001 entirely sold to the British investment company

HgCapital Hg is a London, England-based private equity firm targeting technology buyouts primarily in Europe and the US. The company focuses on investments in technology and services sectors. Hg was founded in 2000. History Hg began life as Mercury Private ...

for £34 million. In 2007 a minority stake was re-acquired by Edel AG. The Eagle Vision division was established in 2000. Eagle Rock Entertainment's headquarters are in London with offices in New York and affiliate offices around the world. In April 2014, Eagle Rock Entertainment was acquired by

Universal Music Group Universal Music Group N.V. (often abbreviated as UMG and referred to as Universal Music Group or Universal Music) is a Netherlands, Dutch–United States, American multinational Music industry, music corporation under Law of the Netherlands, ...

. Universal Music's purchase of Eagle followed that of much of

EMI EMI Group Limited (formerly EMI Group plc until 2007; originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London. At t ...

. Terry Shand continues to lead the company as chairman and CEO from its headquarters in London.

Reorganisation as Mercury Studios

In 2020, Universal Music established Mercury Studios which absorbed Eagle Rock Entertainment. and its UK-based creative division Globe Productions In 2024, Mercury Studios launched the music channel GIGS on Samsung TV Plus, with this live music and documentary channel being launched on Freeview in the UK as a streaming channel on 16 October 2024.

Awards

The company won a Grammy Award for The Doors documentary ''

When You're Strange ''When You're Strange'' is a 2009 music documentary film about the American rock band the Doors. It was written and directed by Tom DiCillo and narrated by Johnny Depp. The film covers the band's formation in 1965, its development over the next ...

'' in 2010.

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* {{Authority control Record labels established in 1997 IFPI members British record labels Music publishing companies of the United Kingdom Labels distributed by Universal Music Group

History

Reorganisation as Mercury Studios

Awards

See also

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