DreamWorks Records was an American record label founded in 1996 by David Geffen, Mo Ostin, his son Michael Ostin and Lenny Waronker as a subsidiary of DreamWorks Pictures. Copyright notices often refer to it as SKG Music, LLC. The label operated until 9 January 2005, when it was sold to Universal Music Group, and it had a Nashville subsidiary, DreamWorks Nashville, which specialized in country music and was shut down in 2005. Its logo was designed by Roy Lichtenstein and was his last commission before his death in 1997.
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founded in 1996 by David Geffen, Mo Ostin, his son Michael Ostin and Lenny Waronker as a subsidiary of DreamWorks Pictures
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The label operated until January 9, 2005
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was an American record label
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was an American record label founded in 1996 by David Geffen, Mo Ostin, his son Michael Ostin and Lenny Waronker as a subsidiary of DreamWorks Pictures
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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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