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===Background=== | ===Background=== | ||
'''A&M Video''' was the home entertainment arm of A&M Records | '''A&M Video''' was the home entertainment arm of A&M Records. | ||
The division was dismantled in 1996. Over two years later, on New Year's Eve 1998, A&M and its parent company, PolyGram, themselves met their demise. Seagram had finished its $10.6 billion acquisition of PolyGram and combined the company's operations with that of [[Universal Pictures]] and its music division was absorbed into the MCA Music division of what could later be the biggest music company, the Universal Music Group. | |||
With the PolyGram merger of UMG, A&M Record was fatally merged into the Interscope Geffen A&M group. After a lawsuit against Universal Music by the label's co-founders, Herb '''Alpert''' and Jerry '''Moss''', accusing the company of breaching the label's integrity clause over the buyout following the PolyGram absorption, both parties reached an agreement to which Universal Music continued to used A&M as a one-off label for its alternate roster of Interscope or Geffen's artists. In 2007, the company was reorganized when UMG rival [[Sony Music Entertainment]] (formerly at the time [[Sony BMG Music Entertainment]]) sold the now-defunct J Records' stake in Octone Records to A&M. Thus, A&M was renamed A&M/Octone Records, with some of its previous roster being moved to Geffen/Interscope, before being absorbed again by Interscope Records in May 2014. | |||
===(1984-1996)=== | ===(1984-1996)=== | ||