Editing Parlophone (section)

==Roster==
{{Main|List of Parlophone artists}}

Parlophone's roster includes many popular music artists. Its contemporary [[His Master's Voice (British record label)|His Master's Voice]] was more of a classical music label and mostly ceased issuing popular music recordings in 1967; later replaced by [[EMI Classics]], which was absorbed into [[Warner Classics]] in 2013; English Columbia was replaced by the EMI pop label. Parlophone also operates [[Regal Recordings|Regal]], a contemporary revival of the historic Columbia Graphophone budget/reissue label founded in 1914. [[List of Parlophone artists|The list]] records those who achieved notability.

===The Beatles===
{{Further|The Beatles}}

The Beatles' albums in the U.K. up to ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'' were issued on the Parlophone label. Subsequent releases&nbsp;– ''[[The Beatles (album)|The Beatles]]'' (also known as the "White Album"), ''[[Yellow Submarine (album)|Yellow Submarine]]'', ''[[Abbey Road]]'' and ''[[Let It Be (album)|Let It Be]]''&nbsp;– were issued on the Beatles' own [[Apple Records|Apple]] record label, manufactured and distributed by EMI and bearing Parlophone catalogue numbers.

On 6 June 1962, producer George Martin signed the Beatles to Parlophone,<ref name="Lewisohn1992">{{cite book |last=Lewisohn |first=Mark |title=The Complete Beatles Chronicle:The Definitive Day-By-Day Guide To the Beatles' Entire Career |year=2010 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7D1mRwAACAAJ&pg=PA56|access-date=17 January 2021|publisher=Chicago Review Press|isbn=978-1-56976-534-0|pages=56–}}</ref> in turn, making the Beatles' deal one of the cheapest by Parlophone.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Beatles Biography |url=http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/the-beatles.html |access-date=29 September 2012 |archive-date=14 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120914170117/http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/the-beatles.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Despite the separation of Parlophone from EMI as a condition of EMI's acquisition by UMG, Universal was allowed to keep the Beatles' recorded music catalogue, which is now managed by the subsidiary [[Calderstone Productions]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thoughtco.com/the-beatles-universal-and-calderstone-3219909 |title=The Beatles, Universal, and Calderstone Productions  |website=thoughtco.com |date=6 March 2017 |access-date=29 May 2017}}</ref>