A Reggae label; Mark Griffiths gives its owner as being Winston Curtis. Empire issued fourteen 7" singles during the years 1976-78, in an EMP-900 series; it seems to have concentrated on 12" singles after that, though it added a fifteenth 7" to the series in 1980. After being distributed locally the '70s records were given nationwide distribution en masse by Lugton's in June 1978. Empire seems to have stopped issuing records in or around 1982.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.