ABOUTFounded over 50 years ago by Allen Klein, ABKCO Music and Records is one of the world’s leading independent entertainment companies. It is home to iconic catalog assets that include compositions and recordings by Sam Cooke, The Rolling Stones, Bobby Womack, The Animals, Herman’s Hermits, Marianne Faithfull, The Kinks as well as the Cameo Parkway masters by such artists as Chubby Checker, Bobby Rydell, Clint Eastwood, The Orlons, The Dovells, ? & The Mysterians, The Tymes and Dee Dee Sharp.
ABKCO Music actively pursues cover placements and licensing opportunities for its catalog worldwide including Susan Boyle’s multi-million selling hit album featuring the single “Wild Horses” and Bobby Womack’s “If You Think You’re Lonely Now” sampled in “We Belong Together” performed by Mariah Carey, which was named Song of the Decade 2000-2010 by Billboard Magazine. Its sync licenses have included the critically acclaimed Martin Scorsese Chanel spot using The Rolling Stones “She Said Yeah” as well as Dior’s commercial featuring The Stones “Sympathy For The Devil”; Sony Bravia’s 2007 Cannes Gold Lion and Clio award winning spot with the Rolling Stones recording of “She’s A Rainbow”, new media deals, licensing of products with Mattel, Hallmark and American Greetings and lyric only products such as tee shirts. ABKCO compositions and masters have been licensed in award winning video games and are featured in almost every major network television series and motion pictures including: Glee, CSI, Criminal Minds, American Idol, The Voice, American Gangster and the upcoming film The Help.
ABKCO Records is active on many fronts including the release of highly regarded compilations and reissues from its vast catalog. In 2009 Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! The Rolling Stones In Concert – 40th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set and the 40th Anniversary Super Deluxe Box Set were released to five star reviews by critics and fans alike and were included in “must have” collectors lists all around the world.
Soundtrack releases include this summer’s hotly anticipated release Our Idiot Brother, the international blockbuster Fast Five, Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited and the 2010 Academy Award® nominated Fantastic Mr. Fox, the director’s first animated feature based on Roald Dahl’s book, Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief, The Men Who Stare At Goats and the soundtrack to the first season of the hit Showtime® series, Californication.
ABKCO Films has been involved with many successful movies including The Greek Tycoon starring Anthony Quinn and Jacqueline Bisset, La Grande Bouffe winner of the International Critics prize at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival and The Concert for Bangladesh featuring Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Bob Dylan and Ringo Starr. Renowned cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s classics El Topo and The Holy Mountain, fully restored and remastered to HD, were shown at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival (Classics section) and at the prestigious 44th New York Film Festival.
In 2003 ABKCO won a Grammy for the DVD release of Sam Cooke – Legend and the following year released the DVD of The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus to universal acclaim. Films in pre-production include a biopic on the life of Sam Cooke.
ABKCO is at the forefront of new technologies in the entertainment field and is in active development of several multi-platform projects, theatrical productions and innovative educational tools to ensure its catalog is enjoyed by generations of fans for years to come.
