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...To his dismay, his record label at the time, Virgin/EMI, turned it down in 2001. A version of the album leaked in 2011....
...I’d had a modelling contract. I had no experience but I was hired as an A&R co-ordinator for EMI and I have no doubt that was because my bosses found me attractive....
...In those first few years of Jones’s career you can hear a man who might have been Britain’s greatest R&B singer if only he’d kept at it: listen to any live Jones album from those first few years to be persuaded...
...In 2012, a Sony-led consortium including Mubadala, an Abu Dhabi fund, acquired EMI’s publishing business from Citigroup for about $2.2bn. At the time, Sony invested only about $325m in the deal....
...“I’d never even heard of music publishing,” she says. It was the first step in a three-decade career in music publishing, which handles the songwriting behind the recordings heard on albums....
...A preponderance of mid-tempo ballads, a default mode in her song-writing, is the stumbling block....
...A Sony-led consortium acquired EMI Music Publishing four years ago for $2.2bn; Sony/ATV manages EMI on an arms-length basis, a regulatory condition of the Sony group’s purchase....
...The songs under management include works represented by EMI Publishing, which was acquired by a Sony-led consortium for $2.2bn....
...Rarely photographed without a beaming smile and a big cigar, Mr Bandier was reunited with EMI Music Publishing three years ago when a Sony-led consortium acquired it for $2.2bn....
...Here is a case in point. When I was at EMI, we participated in an industry consortium choosing the right tape to put on a CD to make sure that no one stole the music from the record shop....
...His preference for melody over lyrics is such that though he bid for both Warner Music and EMI in the past two years, he had no interest in the publishing arms that represent songwriters....
...Citigroup on Friday completed the $2.2bn sale of EMI Music Publishing, owner of the Motown catalogue, after US regulators echoed their European counterparts in approving a bid from a consortium led by Sony...
...a consortium led by Sony, which owns the Sony ATV music publishing joint venture with Michael Jackson’s estate....
...Although talks are continuing, a more detailed second-stage investigation is also expected into a Sony-led consortium’s $2.2bn bid for EMI’s publishing business, which holds rights to songs such as “Over...
...Following a $1.9bn bid from Vivendi’s Universal Music in November for EMI’s record labels and a $2.2bn offer the same day for EMI Music Publishing from a Sony-led consortium, the fabled British music group...
...Universal Music has applied for regulatory approval to acquire EMI’s recorded music business for $1.9bn, and a Sony consortium is looking to acquire EMI Music Publishing for $2.2bn....
...Universal beat Warner Music, owned by Len Blavatnik’s Access Industries, while a Sony consortium financed by funds from Abu Dhabi and Malaysia beat BMG, the Bertelsmann-KKR joint venture, with a $2.2bn...
...So his decision to splash out £1.2bn to acquire the recorded music business of EMI, home of British rock band Coldplay and US pop starlet Katy Perry, seems a little out of character....
...The consortium will keep EMI Music Publishing separate from Sony ATV, but Sony’s publishing venture with Michael Jackson’s estate will administer rights to EMI songs, which include “Somewhere Over The Rainbow...
...Ms Smith acknowledges that a takeover of EMI recorded music by Warner Music, with which it vies for third place in the charts, could strengthen the industry by giving Universal and Sony a more evenly matched...
...Now, after a fevered five-month auction, Citigroup has devised a plan to split the company between Vivendi’s Universal Music and a Sony-led consortium....
...Vivendi has signalled that last week’s €1.4bn purchase of EMI’s recorded music division will probably be its last for a while as it responds to concerns about the €13.3bn net debt built up during its recent...
...“Let’s treat this day like a newborn baby,” she announces in the opening song. Renewal is the theme, but Stone sounds trapped in the past. Joss Stone LP1 (Stone’d Records)...
...: (a) we really cared, and (b) we had actually told the truth.”...
...“Bach was always in time, and not with pop songs!”...
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