Dedicated Records was founded by Doug D'Arcy after leaving Chrysalis Records where he had been managing director, later president[3][4] and director of the Chrysalis Group. It was a joint venture with BMG group[3][4] (and was eventually amalgamated into the main Group via Deconstruction Records). Dedicated Records signed Spacemen 3 from Fire Records (UK), who split up after signing, therefore Dedicated inherited offshoot band Spiritualized.[5]
Eventually, in the USA, Dedicated Artists were transferred to Arista Records, although by that point in time the only groups it represented were Spiritualized and Beth Orton (U.S. only).
^ abcd"The Pannellists". BBC Radio 2. Retrieved 26 February 2017. Doug D'Arcy began in the music business in 1968 as a booking agent and manager at the Ellis-Wright Agency which became Chrysalis. He worked at Chrysalis Records as the Managing Director and then President in 1986. After its sale to EMI, Doug started Dedicated Records, a joint venture with BMG, featuring Spaceman 3, Spiritualized, Cranes and in the US, Beth Orton.