Fury Records was set up by Bobby Robinson in 1957. In 1959 it had a Billboard No.1 hit with Kansas City, sung by Wilbert Harrison. In the early 1970s, the label launched early rap groups like Grandmaster Flash.
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“Its fury aims to shatter but our altars: it scorns only the gods and never the mortals.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
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