Editing Point Blank Records

{{Short description|Record company}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}}
{{Use British English|date=September 2013}}
{{Infobox record label
 | name = Point Blank Records
 | image = 
 | parent = [[Virgin Records]]
 | founded = 1988
 | defunct = 2007
 | founder = [[John Wooler]]
 | status = Inactive
 | distributor = EMI
 | genre =  
 | country = United Kingdom
 | url =
}}

'''Point Blank Records''' is a [[record label]] subsidiary of [[Virgin Records]].

Point Blank Records was founded in 1988 by [[John Wooler]].  Wooler served as Deputy Head of [[A&R]] at Virgin Records [[United Kingdom|UK]] from 1984 to 1994 and Senior Vice President of Virgin Records [[United States|US]] from 1994 to 2002.<ref>{{cite web |title=John Wooler – record producer with 26 Grammy nominations and 5 wins |url=https://www.recordproduction.com/interviews/john-wooler |website=recordproduction.com}}</ref> He had a passion for [[blues]], [[Americana (music)|Americana]] and [[soul music|soul]].  His [[management|manager]], Simon Draper, granted him a small budget to create the label. The first act signed to the record label was [[Larry McCray]] followed by [[Albert Collins]] and [[Donald Kinsey|The Kinsey Report]]. Artists such as [[John Lee Hooker]], [[Solomon Burke]], [[Pops Staples]], [[John P. Hammond|John Hammond]], [[Walter "Wolfman" Washington]], [[Van Morrison]], and [[Johnny Winter]] were later signed to the label as well. Wooler signed all the musicians on the label and [[record producer|produced]] many of them.<ref>{{cite web |title=Point Blank Records |url=https://www.discogs.com/label/91204-Pointblank?page=1 |publisher=Discogs}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Point Blank Records – MusicBrainz |url=https://musicbrainz.org/label/df0d2a9e-3c1e-4b2a-a708-d6b5479411eb |publisher=MusicBrainz}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Lists of record labels]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.recordproduction.com/john-wooler.html John Wooler video interview]

{{Virgin Records}}

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[[Category:British record labels]]
[[Category:1988 establishments in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Record labels established in 1988]]
[[Category:Virgin Records]]


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