Editing Lizard King Records

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'''Lizard King Records''' was a London-based [[independent record label]] founded in 2002 by Martin Heath and Dominic Hardisty.<ref name="hitquarters.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.hitquarters.com/index.php3?page=intrview/opar/intrview_MartinHeath.html|title=Interview With Martin Heath|date=Dec 12, 2005|access-date=Jun 20, 2010|publisher=[[HitQuarters]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180928134228if_/http://www.hitquarters.com/index.php3?page=intrview/opar/intrview_MartinHeath.html|archive-date=Sep 28, 2018}}</ref>

==History==
The label signed US rock band [[The Killers]] in July 2003. According to Heath in an interview with [[HitQuarters]], "Everyone in America had turned them down. They had been out for a year looking for a deal but nobody was interested."<ref name="hitquarters.com"/> The label then released the band's first single, "[[Mr. Brightside]]", on a limited press of 500 within the UK and then on a mass scale worldwide in 2004 and 2005. They also released second singles and a debut album before they were then signed by [[Island Records]].<ref name="hitquarters.com"/>

Around 2005/06 Heath and Hardisty decided to go their separate ways and Hardisty formed a new label [[Marrakesh Records]].

Lizard King's distribution goes through ADA in America and Pinnacle in the UK.

==Artists==

*[[ME (band)]]
*[[Clear Static]]
*[[Drive-by Argument]]
*[[Santigold]] (previously known as Santogold)
*[[The Pierces]]
*[[The Go]]
*[[The Killers]]
* Greater Good
*Oxzana
*Valentina Fel
*[[Erasmo de la Parra]]

==References==
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[[Category:British independent record labels]]


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