Threshold Records

Threshold Records was a record label created by the rock music group Moody Blues. The name of the label came from their 1969 album On the Threshold of a Dream.

The band formed this label to allow for artistically packaged gatefold covers for their LP releases, and for releasing band members' solo efforts. Threshold was distributed by Decca Records in the UK and by London Records in the United States.

The first band to be signed up on this label were Westcountry rockers Asgard in 1972 who released two singles from their album, In the Realm of Asgard. Genesis, encouraged by Mike Pinder, also considered signing with the label in 1970. According to Tony Banks, they recorded a version of "Looking for Someone", a song which later appeared on their second album Trespass, but shelved it due to a mistake in the organ performance toward the end which Pinder argued did not demand another take.

Bassist John Lodge produced the band Trapeze for the Threshold label. The rock sextet Providence also re… More