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His Master's Voice in abbreviation HMV is a trademark in the music business, and for many years was the name of a large record label. The name was coined in 1899 as the title of a painting of the dog Nipper listening to a wind-up gramophone. In the photograph on which the painting was based, the... dog was listening to a phonograph cylinder. The trademark image comes from a painting by English artist Francis Barraud, A.R.A. and titled His Master's Voice. It was acquired from the artist in 1899 by the newly-formed Gramophone Company. According to contemporary Gramophone Company publicity material, the dog, a fox terrier called Nipper, had originally belonged to Barraud's brother Mark. When Mark Barraud died, Francis inherited Nipper, along with a cylinder phonograph and a number of recordings of Mark's voice. Francis noted the peculiar interest that the dog took in the recorded voice of his late master emanating from the trumpet, and conceived the idea of committing the scene to canvas.
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Dark Horse Records is a record label founded by George Harrison in 1974. Harrison had recorded for EMI under a contract which expired in 1976. All his subsequent recordings were released through Dark Horse Records, starting with Thirty Three & 1/3 in 1976 and ending with Live in Japan in 1992.... After the latter, it went into hiatus for 10 years. Dark Horse was distributed by A&M Records , Warner Bros. Records and Parlophone . It took until 1981 for the first Dark Horse release in Belgium . Dark Horse briefly revived with the posthumous release of Brainwashed in 2002. Harrison's Dark Horse back catalogue was remastered and reissued in a box-set during 2004. After those releases, Dark Horse was folded into Parlophone in 2004. Though Dark Horse ultimately focused solely on Harrison's releases, the label also released albums by the following artists between 1974 and 1976: The inspiration for the Dark Horse logo came from a label on a tin box Harrison saw on one of his many trips to India. The logo features the seven-headed horse Uchchaisravas, a common figure in Indian art and mythology.
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