Basically a vehicle for records by Cockney rockers Chas and Dave, Rockney was owned by Bob England, the duo's manager. Most of the company's releases came out in the first half of the '80s, but a couple of singles appeared in the '70s: 'The Sideboard Song' (EMI-2986; 8/79) and 'What A Miserable Saturday Night' (EMI-5002; 10/79). Catalogue numbers were borrowed from the main EMI series at this point. In 1980 distribution was taken on by Pinnacle and a ROCKNEY-0 series was adopted, apparently starting at ROCKNEY-9. After a move to Towerbell / PRT in 1981 this became KOR-0, the KORS taking over where the ROCKEYS left off, ROCKNEY-10 being followed by KOR-11. There were occasional records by other artists on the label: Mike Berry and Clarence 'Frogman' Henry both contributed singles. Rockney registered several Chart hits, but despite those successes it seems to have expired c.1986.
Copyright 2007 Robert Lyons.