DGC Records, an initialism for the David Geffen Company, was an American record label that operated as a division of Interscope Geffen A&M Records, which is owned by Universal Music Group. In 1999, after the PolyGram merger into Universal Music Group created the Interscope Geffen A&M unit, DGC was absorbed into Geffen Records. It was revived in 2007 and merged into Geffen again in September 2021, following eight years of inactivity. The most famous group the label signed was Nirvana.
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Santa Monica, California
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was launched in 1990 by David Geffen as a subsidiary label of Geffen Records
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merged into Geffen again in September 2021
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was an American record label
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was an American record label that operated as a division of Interscope Geffen A&M Records, which is owned by Universal Music Group
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he co-founded Asylum Records with Elliot Roberts in 1971 before founding Geffen Records in 1980, DGC Records in 1990, and co-founding DreamWorks Records
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