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Mike Vernon

real name Michael William Hugh Vernon

Mike Vernon is credited on 4,126 releases across 686 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1963–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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4,126

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686

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388

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Biography

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British producer, engineer, musician and music executive. Founder of the Blue Horizon label (distributed through CBS and Polydor), owner of and key producer for numerous British blues artists and groups during the late 1960s - particularly Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac and John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers.
Vernon played in a few bands before joining the A&R Department of in November 1963 in a minor capacity, working progressively on his seniors until given the go-ahead to produce and engineer at with several blues artists, moving on later from Blue Horizon to a very broad genre of artists. His work encompasses such diverse artists as Furry Lewis, Level 42, David Bowie and Rocky Sharpe & The Replays (In which he also ghosted as 'Eric Rondo'). Labels he is also associated with are, and the later Indigo Recordings and Code Blue, the latter distributed through Atlantic, reviving the works of Blues, Jazz, Funk and Soul artists - such as Jay Owens and Sherman Robertson.
In February 1965, he founded the Blue Horizon label with Purdah Records and Outasite appearing within the following twelve months.
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Born: 20 November 1944, Harrow, Middlesex, England.
Died: 2 March 2026
Brother of Richard Vernon