Vertigo Records

Vertigo Records
Vertigo Records
Parent company	Universal Music Group
Founded	1969
Status	Active
Distributor(s)	Universal Music Germany; EMI Records (UK); Republic Records (U.S.);
Genre	Hard rock; progressive rock; psychedelic rock; pop soul; heavy metal; glam metal (import bands);
Country of origin	UK (originally); Germany (today)

Vertigo Records is a British record company. It was a subsidiary of the Philips/Phonogram record label, launched in 1969 to specialise in progressive rock and other non-mainstream musical styles. Today, it is operated by Universal Music Germany, and the UK catalogue was folded into Mercury Records, which was absorbed in 2013 by Virgin EMI Records, which returned to the EMI Records name in June 2020.