Editing Radar Records (section)

{{Short description|British record label}}
{{For|the garage house record label|Radar Records (U.S. label)}}
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{{Infobox record label
| name        = Radar Records
| image       = [[file:Radar_Records_logo.jpg]]
| caption     = The Radar logo, designed by [[Barney Bubbles]]
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| parent      = 
| founded     = 1977 (first version)<br>1995 (second version)
| founder     = [[Andrew Lauder (music executive)|Andrew Lauder]], Martin Davis, Tim Read, [[Jake Riviera]] (first version)<br>Rob Collins, Graeme Beattie <br>(second version)
| genre       = {{hlist|[[Punk rock]]|[[New wave music|new wave]]|[[post-punk]]|[[alternative rock]]|[[indie rock]]|[[garage rock]]}}
| defunct     = 1981 (first version)<br>1998 (second version)
| distributor = [[Warner Music Group|WEA Records]] (world except US & Canada)<br> [[Polydor Records]] (US & Canada, first version only)
| country     = United Kingdom
| location    = [[London]]
| url         = 
}}
'''Radar Records''' was a UK-based [[record label]] formed in late 1977 by Martin Davis (managing director) who had previously worked at [[United Artists Records]], and [[Andrew Lauder (music executive)|Andrew Lauder]], who had previously been head of [[A&R]] at the UK divisions of [[Liberty Records]] and United Artists.<ref>Graham Thomson, ''Complicated Shadows: The Life and Music of Elvis Costello''. Canongate Books, 2013. ([https://books.google.com/books?id=i4i2GcrOJMkC&dq=%22radar+records%22+music&pg=PT136 Google Books link])</ref> The label's first records were released in early 1978.