Music for Pleasure

Music for Pleasure (or MFP) was a record label that issued budget-priced albums of popular and classical music, although the latter were marketed under the Classics for Pleasure (CFP) name. Albums were subsequently released under the MFP label in Australia (MFP-A) and South Africa. The label was set up in 1965 as a joint venture between EMI, which provided the source material, and the publisher Paul Hamlyn, which handled distribution in so-called non-traditional outlets, such as W.H. Smith, the booksellers. The MFP catalogue consisted of both original material and reissues of existing EMI recordings, including records by "name" artists such as The Beach Boys, Blondie, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, The Animals and The Beatles. Original...