Now & Then Records was a record label

Record label

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 founded in 1992

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 by Mark Ashton, Bruce Mee and Peter Sims. The label based in Wigan

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, England

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 released albums dealing with album-oriented rock

Album-oriented rock

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, hard rock

Hard rock

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 and melodic rock musical genres. In 1998 Now & Then became a production company with its album releases handled by Frontiers Records

Frontiers Records

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The first release on the Now & Then label was Gary Hughes

Gary Hughes

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' self tiled album (NTHEN 1) in 1992.

Now and Then's fifth release (NTHEN 5), was Liverpool based prog-rockers The Quest, debut album Do You Believe. The same band released their second album Change on the same label a few years later.