Russell, co-founder of Shelter Records, about setting up a label. Harrison eventually agreed terms with A&M Records for the latter to distribute his new label worldwide. For a company name, Harrison used the title of a song he had written in 1973, "Dark Horse". The inspiration for the Dark Horse Records logo came from a label on a tin that Harrison found during a trip to India. The logo features the seven-headed horse Uchchaisravas, a common figure in Indian art and mythology. History After Harrison signed with Dark Horse Records on 27 January 1976, all of his subsequent recordings were released through the label, starting with that year's Thirty Three & 1/3 and ending with Live in Japan in 1992. After the latter, it went into hiatus for ten years. Dark Horse was distributed by A&M Records (1974–76), Warner Bros. Records (1976–94) and EMI (2002–04). Dark Horse was revived with the posthumous release of Brainwashed in 2002. Harrison's back catalogue on the label was remastered and reissued as the Dark Horse Years 1976–1992 box set during 2004. In 2010, Dark Horse released the Ravi Shankar–George Harrison box set Collaborations, with distribution through Rhino Entertainment. In 2017 all original Apple and Dark Horse Records albums were reissued and distributed by Universal Music Group. On 22 January 2020, Dark Horse signed a distribution deal with BMG Rights Management. The deal marked the label's revival by Harrison's son Dhani, who announced that it had acquired Joe Strummer's catalogue. Artists Though Dark Horse ultimately focused solely on Harrison's releases, the label also released albums by the following artists between 1974 and 1978: Ravi Shankar Attitudes, a Los Angeles band Splinter, a South Shields duo The Stairsteps, a Chicago soul vocal group R&B vocalist Keni Burke, a former member of the Stairsteps Henry McCullough, formerly guitarist with Joe Cocker and Wings Jiva, a California band Discography Singles Albums Notes Also released as a picture disc, catalog number K 17423P Released by Dark Horse/Parlophone. Box set of Harrison's remastered Dark Horse years albums: Thirty Three & 1/3 (1977) to Cloud Nine (1987). Box set consisting of Shankar's two Harrison-produced albums on Dark Horse – Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India and Shankar Family & Friends – together with Chants of India (1997) and a DVD containing film of a 1974 Musical Festival from India performance at the Royal Albert Hall, London. See also List of record