PGP-RTB was a major record label

Record label

In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...

 and chain

Chain store

Chain stores are retail outlets that share a brand and central management, and usually have standardized business methods and practices. These characteristics also apply to chain restaurants and some service-oriented chain businesses. In retail, dining and many service categories, chain businesses...

 record store in the former SFR Yugoslavia based in Belgrade

Belgrade

Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...

, Socialist Republic of Serbia

Socialist Republic of Serbia

Socialist Republic of Serbia was a socialist state that was a constituent country of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It is a predecessor of modern day Serbia, which served as the biggest republic in the Yugoslav federation and held the largest population of all the Yugoslav...

. PGP-RTB was established in 1958. It was the music production branch of the national Radio-Television Belgrade

Radio Television of Serbia

Radio Television of Serbia or Serbian Broadcasting Corporation is the public broadcaster in Serbia. It broadcasts and produces a variety of news, drama, and sports programming through radio, television and the Internet. RTS is, since July 2001, a member of the European Broadcasting Union. RTS is...

.

After the breakup of Yugoslavia, in 1993, the company changed its name to PGP-RTS

PGP-RTS

PGP-RTS is a major record label based in Belgrade, Serbia. It is a successor of PGP-RTB which was established in 1958 in Belgrade, then capital of Socialist Republic of Serbia and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia....

 (Produkcija Gramofonskih Ploča Radio-Televizije Srbije), which is the music production of branch of the Radio Television of Serbia

Radio Television of Serbia

Radio Television of Serbia or Serbian Broadcasting Corporation is the public broadcaster in Serbia. It broadcasts and produces a variety of news, drama, and sports programming through radio, television and the Internet. RTS is, since July 2001, a member of the European Broadcasting Union. RTS is...

.

Artists

PGP-RTB notable for signing numerous eminent former Yugoslav pop

Pop music

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 and rock

Rock music

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, as well as folk

Folk music

Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

 acts. Some of the artists that have been signed to PGP-RTB include:

• Alisa
  Alisa (Serbian band)
  Alisa were a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band.-1984 - 1991:...
  
  
• Amajlija
  Amajlija
  Amajlija is a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band.-History:The band was formed in 1979 by Bogoljub "Čombe" Banjac , Boško "Čvaja" Plaćkov and Predrag "Čole" Čoka , all three being 'Oćeš-Nećeš members, with Slobodan "Veća" Većalkov and Tomislav "Čvaja" Milei...
  
  
• Silvana Armenulić
  Silvana Armenulic
  Silvana Armenulić was one of the most prominent commercial folk music and traditional sevdalinka singers in former Yugoslavia...
  
  
• Atomsko Sklonište
  Atomsko sklonište
  Atomsko sklonište is a Croatian and former Yugoslav hard rock band, formed in Pula in 1977. The band is known primarily for its strong anti-war lyrics.-1977-1987:...
  
  
• Bajaga i Instruktori
  Bajaga i Instruktori
  Bajaga i Instruktori are a highly popular Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band...
  
  
• Đorđe Balašević
• Banana
  Banana (band)
  -Band history:Banana was formed in 1985 in Belgrade. They released their debut album Ponoćni pasaži in 1986 in the following lineup: Aleksandra Toković , Dragan Lončar , Boban Šaranović , Srđan Cincar and Igor Borojević...
  
  
• Bastion
  Bastion (band)
  Bastion was an eminent electronic music group from Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, notable for its member Kiril Džajkovski , who later rose to international prominence as a solo musician, DJ and a composer of the soundtrack album for Milčo Mančevski's movie Dust.The trio was formed in 1983 in...
  
  
• Bebi Dol
• Bel Tempo
  Bel Tempo
  Bel Tempo wаs a Serbian and former Yugoslav pop rock duo.-History:Bel Tempo was formed in 1986 in Belgrade by brother and sister Vladimir "Vlada" Petričević and Suzana Petričević . They chose the name after Bora Ćosić's play Bel Tempo...
  
  
• Beograd
  Beograd (band)
  Beograd was a Serbian and former Yugoslav synthpop band, notable as one of the pioneers of the former Yugoslav electronic music scene.- History :...
  
  
• Bezobrazno Zeleno
  Bezobrazno Zeleno
  Bezobrazno Zeleno were a former Yugoslav New Wave/pop rock band from Belgrade. The band was notable as the participant of the Artistička radna akcija project as well as for their later works....
  
  
• Lepa Brena
  Lepa Brena
  Fahreta Jahić Živojinović is Yugoslavian pop-folk singer, better known as Lepa Brena , . Born in Tuzla and raised in Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina , she moved to Novi Sad in 1980 to pursue her career in singing. In 1982...
  
  
• Bulevar
  Bulevar (band)
  Bulevar were a Serbian and former Yugoslav New Wave band from Belgrade.-Band formation:The band history dates from the days of the group Tilt consisting of young highschool attendants Dejan Cukić , Nenad Stamatović , Dušan Bezuha , Miroslav Cvetković and drummers at different times,...
  
  
• Buldožer
  Buldožer
  Buldožer was Yugoslav-Slovenian progressive rock band from 1970s and 1980s. They were one of the first bands in communist Yugoslavia that could be considered alternative, and forefathers of the Yugoslav New Wave...
  
  
• Crni Biseri
  Crni Biseri
  Crni Biseri was a former Yugoslav rock band, notable as one of the pioneers of the former Yugoslav rock scene.- 1963 - 1980 :...
  
  
• DAG
• Dejan Cukić
  Dejan Cukic
  Dejan Cukić is a Serbian rock musician, journalist and writer.During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Cukić was the frontman of the New Wave band Bulevar, releasing two albums with the band. After Bulevar disbanded in 1982, he retired from music...
  
  
• Čista Proza
  Čista Proza
  Čista Proza was a former Yugoslav New Wave band from Novi Sad, founded by the well-known Serbian producer and sound engineer Milan Ćirić.- History :...
  
  
• Zdravko Čolić
  Zdravko Colic
  Zdravko Čolić , is a pop singer popular across the entire area of former Yugoslavia. Originally from Sarajevo, since 1992 , his home is in Belgrade, Serbia...
  
  
• Disciplina Kičme
  Disciplina Kičme
  Disciplina Kičme , is a Serbian band, one of the two spin-offs of the seminal Yugoslav New Wave and later post-punk band Šarlo Akrobata, the other being Ekatarina Velika...
  
  
• Doktor Spira i Ljudska Bića
  Doktor Spira i Ljudska Bića
  Doktor Spira i Ljudska Bića was a Serbian New Wave/alternative rock band from Belgrade.- Mira i Spira, band formation :...
  
  
• Drugi Način
  Drugi Način
  Drugi Način was a former Yugoslav rock band.- 1970s and 1980s :In the first half of the 1970s Branko Požgajec , Halil Mekić and Vjekoslav Poldrugac performed in the reformed Novi Akordi...
  
  
• Džentlmeni
  Džentlmeni
  Džentlmeni were a Serbian beat band from Belgrade.- Band formation and split :...
  
  
• Ekatarina Velika
  Ekatarina Velika
  Ekatarina Velika , sometimes referred to as EKV for short, was a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock group from Belgrade, being one of the most successful and influential music acts coming out of former Yugoslavia....
  
  
• Elipse
  Elipse (band)
  Elipse were a former Yugoslav rock and soul group from Belgrade, notable as one of the pioneers of the former Yugoslav rock scene.- The beat years :...
  
  
• Galija
  Galija
  Galija is a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band from Niš. The central figures of the band are brothers Nenad Milosavljević and Predrag Milosavljević...
  
  
• Generacija 5
  Generacija 5
  Generacija 5 is a Serbian and former Yugoslav hard rock band from Belgrade.-1977—1982:...
  
  
• Gordi
  Gordi
  Gordi were a former Yugoslav heavy metal band from Belgrade. Although only their last two studio albums, Pakleni trio and Kraljica smrti, were truly heavy metal oriented, these are the albums for which Gordi are generally most remembered.-Band history:The band was formed in November 1977 by former...
  
  
• Griva
  Griva
  Griva was a Serbian and former Yugoslav hard rock band from Novi Sad.-1982—1992:The band was formed in 1982 by former Ibn Tup members, Zlatko Karavla and Josip Sabo . The first lineup also featured Zoran Gogić , Laslo Novak , and Đorđe Jovanović...
  
  
• Grupa I
  Grupa I
  Grupa I was a Serbian and former Yugoslav New Wave band from Belgrade, active in the late 1970s and early 1980s.- History :...
  
  
• Igra Staklenih Perli
  Igra Staklenih Perli
  Igra Staklenih Perli were a former Yugoslav progressive/psychedelic rock band from Belgrade.- 1976-1985:...
  
  
• Indexi
  Indexi
  Indexi was a Bosnian rock band popular in the former Yugoslavia. It formed in 1962 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, and disbanded in 2001 when singer Davorin Popović died...
  
  
• Jakarta
  Jakarta (band)
  -Band history:The band was formed in 1981 in Belgrade. During the initial period the band went through numerous lineup changes, before original members Igor Popović and Jane Parđovski started performing with Rade Bulatović , Miloš Petrović and Ivan Fece .They released their debut album Maske za...
  
  
• Jugosloveni
  Jugosloveni
  Jugosloveni were a former Yugoslav rock band, best known for their hit "Jugosloveni".-Band history:The band was formed in 1986 by the vocalist Zoran Paunović...
  
  
• Karizma
• Kerber
  Kerber
  Kerber is a Serbian and former Yugoslav hard rock band from Niš.-1980s:The original members of Kerber were Goran Šepa "Gale" , Tomislav Nikolić , Branislav "Bane" Božinović , Zoran Stamenković and Zoran Madić . In 1981, formerly known as Top Kerber (Serbian Cyrillic: Кербер; trans. Cerberus) is a...
  
  
• Tereza Kesovija
  Tereza Kesovija
  Tereza Ana Kesovija is an internationally acclaimed Croatian singer, one of the most recognisable figures on the Balkan music scene, renowned for her wide vocal range and operatic style and one of the most important artists of the former Yugoslavia. She also had a very successful career in France...
  
  
• Korni Grupa
  Korni Grupa
  Korni Grupa was a former Yugoslav rock band from Belgrade. Korni Grupa was one of the first former Yugoslav rock bands to achieve major mainstream popularity. The band's first releases were commercial pop-oriented songs. Korni Grupa later turned towards progressive rock, continuing, however, to...
  
  
• La Strada
  La Strada (band)
  La Strada was a Serbian and former Yugoslav New Wave/alternative rock band from Novi Sad.- New Wave era :The band was formed by Slobodan Tišma also known as "Deda" , a rock veteran and poet, and called it La Strada by the Federico Fellini movie La strada...
  
  

• Laboratorija Zvuka
  Laboratorija Zvuka
  Laboratorija Zvuka , sometimes credited as Laboratorija only, was a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band...
  
  
• Laki Pingvini
  Laki Pingvini
  Laki Pingvini were a Serbian rock band from Belgrade. While initially being a New Wave act, throughout their later career, the band turned towards synthpop and pop rock....
  
  
• Leb i Sol
  Leb i sol
  Leb i sol is a Macedonian rock group founded in the 1970s by Vlatko Stefanovski , Bodan Arsovski , Nikola Kokan Dimuševski and Garabet Tavitjan . Tavitjan ceded the drumwork to Dragoljub Đuričić for some of the albums, while Kiril Džajkovski replaced Kokan on Kao Kakao and Putujemo...
  
  
• Mama Rock
  Mama Rock
  Mama Rock is a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock known for their hit ballad "Eva".-1977 - 1992:History of Mama Rock begins with band Viktorija whose members were Stojanović brothers, Zoran "Ciga" and Dragomir, and Nikolić brothers, Bane and Mirko, and which won the first place at 1974 Gitarijada...
  
  
• Oliver Mandić
  Oliver Mandic
  Oliver Mandić is a Serbian pop musician, composer, and producer - very prominent and popular throughout the 1980s.-Early biography:...
  
  
• Slađana Milošević
• Toni Montano
  Toni Montano
  Toni Montano , real name Velibor Miljković is a Serbian rock musician. One of pioneers of psychobilly on the former Yugoslav rock scene, Toni Montano is better known for his controversial statements.-Radost Evrope:Miljković started his career as a vocalist of the band Radost Evrope Toni Montano...
  
  
• Oktobar 1864
  Oktobar 1864
  Oktobar 1864 was a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band.-1984 – 1992:Oktobar 1864 was formed in 1984 in Zemun by Goran Tomanović and have changed several line-ups before they won the Best demo Band Award at the MESAM festival in 1986. Goran Tomanović the first band members over the...
  
  
• Osmi Putnik
  Osmi putnik
  Osmi putnik is a Croatian and former Yugoslav hard rock/heavy metal band.-1985 - 1989:...
  
  
• Osvajači
  Osvajaci
  Osvajači were a Serbian and former Yugoslav hard rock/heavy metal band from Kragujevac.Osvajači were originally formed in 1990. They recorded two studio albums, Krv i led and Sam, and disbanded in 1997...
  
  
• Parni Valjak
  Parni Valjak
  Parni valjak 1975 is a Croatian and former Yugoslav rock band. They were one of the top acts of the former Yugoslav Rock scene, and currently one of the top rock-and-roll bands in Croatia.-Biography:Parni valjak was founded in 1975...
  
  
• Partibrejkers
  Partibrejkers
  Partibrejkers is a prominent Serbian rock band from Belgrade, as well as an acclaimed act of the former Yugoslav rock scene....
  
  
• Piloti
  Piloti (band)
  Piloti is a Serbian rock band from Belgrade. Formed in 1981, and initially immersed in the Yugoslav New Wave scene, the band later moved towards mainstream pop rock, they came to prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s as one of the leading pop rock acts in former Yugoslavia...
  
  
• Pomaranča
• Pop Mašina
  Pop Mašina
  Pop Mašina was a former Yugoslav progressive rock band from Belgrade. Pop Mašina was formed in 1972, and released two studio albums and one live album before disbanding in 1978...
  
  
• Porodična Manufaktura Crnog Hleba
  Porodicna Manufaktura Crnog Hleba
  Porodična Manufaktura Crnog Hleba were a former Yugoslav acoustic rock band and a theatre group and one of the pioneers of the former Yugoslav acoustic rock scene....
  
  
• Poslednja Igra Leptira
  Poslednja Igra Leptira
  Poslednja Igra Leptira was a Serbian pop rock band from Belgrade.-Biography:...
  
  
• Propaganda
  Propaganda (Serbian band)
  Propaganda was a former Yugoslav New Wave band from Belgrade, consisting of former Zvuk Ulice and Bulevar members. The band released only one album, Apatija javnosti, and disbanded.- Zvuk Ulice :...
  
  
• Radomir Mihajlović Točak
• Rambo Amadeus
  Rambo Amadeus
  Rambo Amadeus is the stage name of the Belgrade-based Montenegrin singer-songwriter Antonije Pušić, popular all over the former Yugoslavia...
  
  
• Rani Mraz
  Rani Mraz
  Rani Mraz were a former Yugoslav rock band from Novi Sad, formed in 1977 by former Žetva member Đorđe Balašević. During the initial period, the band went through several lineup changes, until Balašević and female singer Biljana Krstić remained the only official members of the band...
  
  
• Riblja Čorba
  Riblja Corba
  Riblja Čorba is a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band. Their presence on the scene has lasted from 1978 to today. They reached their peak of popularity in the 1980s, but it has declined in the 1990s, partly due to controversial political attitudes of the band's leader Bora Đorđević...
  
  
• Siluete
  Siluete
  Siluete was a former Yugoslav and Serbian rock band from Belgrade, notable for being one of the pioneers of the former Yugoslav rock scene.-1961 - 1971:...
  
  
• Slomljena Stakla
  Slomljena Stakla
  Slomljena Stakla was a former Yugoslav pop rock band from Belgrade.- History :The band was formed in 1982 by singer and composer Zoran Vasilić...
  
  
• Smak
  Smak
  Smak is a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band. The group reached the peak of popularity in the 1970s when it was one of the top acts of the former Yugoslav rock scene...
  
  
• Suncokret
  Suncokret
  Suncokret was a former Yugoslav acoustic rock band from Belgrade.-Band history:The band was formed in 1975 by former Zajedno member Bora Đorđević , a former U Cvetu Mladosti member Nenad Božić and female singers Snežana Jandrlić and Vesna Rakočević...
  
  
• S Vremena Na Vreme
  S Vremena Na Vreme
  S Vremena Na Vreme was a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band from Belgrade...
  
  
• Miladin Šobić
  Miladin Šobic
  Miladin Šobić is a Montenegrin singer and songwriter.He was an active performer during the late 1970s and early 1980s in SFR Yugoslavia where his prominence had a strictly regional character with his popularity mostly confined to some parts of then Yugoslav republics of Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia...
  
  
• Tako
  Tako (band)
  Tako was a former Yugoslav symphonic rock band from Belgrade.-History:Tako was formed in 1974 by Dušan "Dule" Ćućuz , Đorđe Ilijin , Sava Bojić and Milan "Mića Žorž" Lolić...
  
  
• Time
  Time (rock band)
  Time was a rock band from Yugoslavia that was formed in 1971 by Dado Topić after leaving his previous band Korni Grupa. The original lineup consisted of, in addition to Topić, Tihomir Pop Asanović , Vedran Božić , Mario Mavrin , Ratko Divjak and Brane Lambert Živković...
  
  
• Tunel
  Tunel (band)
  Tunel was a former Yugoslav rock band from Belgrade.-1980 – 1992:The band was formed in 1980 by Ljuba Ninković , Vladimir "Vlada" Janković "Džet" , and Steva Stevanović...
  
  
• Neda Ukraden
  Neda Ukraden
  Neda Ukraden is a famous Serbian pop-folk singer across all of the former Yugoslavia, whose professional career stretches back over 30 years. She sings in the ijekavian form of the Serbo-Croatian language....
  
  
• U Škripcu
  U Škripcu
  U Škripcu was a former Yugoslav rock band from Belgrade, notable as participant in the Artistička radna akcija project as well as for their later works.- Formation and breakup :...
  
  
• Vampiri
  Vampiri
  Vampiri were a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band from Belgrade. The band was formed in 1988, and performed music influenced by the 1950s doo-wop and rockabilly. After releasing two studio albums, they disbanded in 1993...
  
  
• Van Gogh
  Van Gogh (band)
  Van Gogh is a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band from Belgrade. The band was formed in 1986, and released their debut alternative rock-oriented self-titled album the same year...
  
  
• Viktorija
  Viktorija
  Snežana Mišković , better known by her stage name Viktorija , is a Serbian female rock singer known for her husky voice.-Biography:Snežana Mišković was born in Vučitrn. She came to Belgrade as a student in 1976, where she started performing with Society of Culture and Arts Branko Krsmanović and the...
  
  
• Warriors
  Warriors (band)
  Warriors were a former Yugoslav/Canadian heavy metal band. They were originally known as Ratnici and changed their name to Warriors in 1983.-Band history:...
  
  
• YU grupa
  YU grupa
  YU grupa is a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band. One of the pioneers in combining rock music with the elements of the traditional music of the Balkans, YU grupa is considered the longest-lasting rock band to come from Serbia....
  
  
• Zana
  Zana (band)
  Zana is a popular music group from Belgrade, Serbia, which was especially successful during the 1980s in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.-Early years:...
  
  
• Zdravo
  Zdravo (band)
  Zdravo was a former Yugoslav euro disco group from Belgrade.-Band history:The group was formed in 1976 by the disk jockey Boban Petrović. Having gathered several teenagers and several Belgrade musicians, Petrović intended to form a band which would perform communicative disco music with funk...
  
  
• Zona B
  Zona B
  -History:Former Idoli bassist Zdenko Kolar and drummer Dušan Ristić "Rista" officially formed Zona B on November 29, 1986. After several personnel changes, the band got a default lineup featuring Jovan "Lole" Savić , Dušan "Duda" Bezuha , Tomislav "Toma" Rakijaš and Vladimir "Buca" Filipović...
  
  

PGP-RTB has also released some albums by eminent classical musicians at that time, such as Milenko Stefanović

Milenko Stefanovic

Milenko Stefanović is the most famous Serbian and Yugoslav clarinetist: a prizewinner in the international competitions in Moscow, Munich, Geneva and Prague, soloist who has achieved significant international career, long-time principal clarinetist of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra and...

 and Ernest Ačkun

Ernest Ackun

Ernest Ačkun was a Yugoslav / Slovenian clarinetist.-Early life:Ernest Ačkun was born in Hrastnik, Slovenia, which was then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia....

. Like Jugoton, PGP-RTB also had a licence to release foreign titles for the domestic market including notable international pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 and rock music

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 stars such as: Joan Baez

Joan Baez

Joan Chandos Baez is an American folk singer, songwriter, musician and a prominent activist in the fields of human rights, peace and environmental justice....

, Bee Gees

Bee Gees

The Bee Gees are a musical group that originally comprised three brothers: Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio was successful for most of their 40-plus years of recording music, but they had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a pop act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and as a...

, Bon Jovi

Bon Jovi

Bon Jovi is an American rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Formed in 1983, Bon Jovi consists of lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi , guitarist Richie Sambora, keyboardist David Bryan, drummer Tico Torres, as well as current bassist Hugh McDonald...

, James Brown

James Brown

James Joseph Brown was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist. He is the originator of Funk and is recognized as a major figure in the 20th century popular music for both his vocals and dancing. He has been referred to as "The Godfather of Soul," "Mr...

, Def Leppard

Def Leppard

Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in 1977 in Sheffield as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Since 1992, the band have consisted of Joe Elliott , Rick Savage , Rick Allen , Phil Collen , and Vivian Campbell...

, Dire Straits

Dire Straits

Dire Straits were a British rock band active from 1977 to 1995, composed of Mark Knopfler , his younger brother David Knopfler , John Illsley , and Pick Withers .Dire Straits' sound drew from a variety of musical influences, including jazz, folk, blues, and came closest...

, Bryan Ferry

Bryan Ferry

Bryan Ferry, CBE is an English singer, musician, and songwriter. Ferry came to public prominence in the early 1970s as lead vocalist and principal songwriter with the band Roxy Music, who enjoyed a highly successful career with three number one albums and ten singles entering the top ten charts in...

, Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...

, The Police

The Police

The Police were an English rock band formed in London in 1977. For the vast majority of their history, the band consisted of Sting , Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland...

, Rainbow

Rainbow (band)

Rainbow were an English rock band, controlled by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore from 1975 to 1984 and 1994 to 1997. It was originally established with American rock band Elf's members, though over the years Rainbow went through many line-up changes with no two studio albums featuring the same line-up...

, Status Quo, Rod Stewart

Rod Stewart

Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE is a British singer-songwriter and musician, born and raised in North London, England and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English ancestry....

, Sting, The Style Council

The Style Council

The Style Council were an English band, formed in 1983 by the ex-The Jam singer and guitarist Paul Weller, with keyboardist Mick Talbot. The permanent line-up grew to include drummer Steve White and Weller's then-wife, vocalist Dee C. Lee. Other artists such as Tracie Young and Tracey Thorn also...

, The Who

The Who

The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964 by Roger Daltrey , Pete Townshend , John Entwistle and Keith Moon . They became known for energetic live performances which often included instrument destruction...

, and others.

Competition

Other major labels in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia were: Jugodisk

Jugodisk

-History:There were two recording labels in Yugoslavia named Jugodisk. The first Jugodisk started in 1950s and issued 78rpm records with Yugoslav folk and popular music...

 from Belgrade

Belgrade

Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...

; Jugoton

Jugoton

Jugoton was the largest record label and chain record store in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia based in Zagreb, Socialist Republic of Croatia. After the breakup of Yugoslavia the company continued to work in independent Republic of Croatia under the name Croatia...

 and Suzy

Suzy (record label)

-History:The company was established in the then Socialist Republic of Croatia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1972.After the abandonment of the socialist system and the subsequent breakup of Yugoslavia, during the 1990s the company transformed to SUZY d.o.o....

 from Zagreb; Diskoton

Diskoton

Diskoton was a major record label based in Sarajevo, Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the former Yugoslavia. It should not be confused with another former Yugoslav record company with a similar name called Diskos....

 from Sarajevo

Sarajevo

Sarajevo |Bosnia]], surrounded by the Dinaric Alps and situated along the Miljacka River in the heart of Southeastern Europe and the Balkans....

; ZKP RTLJ

ZKP RTLJ

Založba kaset in plošč RTV Ljubljana or Založba kaset in plošč Radiotelevizije Ljubljana , was a major record label based in Ljubljana, Socialist Republic of Slovenia, during the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia...

 from Ljubljana

Ljubljana

Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants...

, and others.