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...Director Lluís Pasqual tries to evoke the splendour of church and crown in 16th-century Spain, cladding the stage in black and gold....
...“We never have music piped out of the speaker,” says Eagle, “My husband owns the old EMI vinyl pressing plant; he’s mad about vinyl, it’s always records playing....
...They too were dressed in gold, as were the backing singers. Smith wore a black tie, some sort of high-fashion feathery corset and gold trousers....
...In the past five years, Sony has gone on an acquisition spree to expand its entertainment assets, buying EMI Music Publishing for $2.3bn and spending $1.2bn to acquire AT&T’s anime streaming service Crunchyroll...
...its business mission is to keep specialist repair shop skills alive and it takes on trade apprentices and graduate trainees. 85 Lower Richmond Road, London SW15; clockclinic.co.uk SG Julian Watch Repair Corp...
...He added that his right-hand man’s biggest contribution had been to “support growth investments”, citing how Totoki led the $2.3bn acquisition of EMI Music Publishing in 2018 and aggressive investments in...
...In the past three years, it has signed more than $5bn worth of deals, including buying EMI Music Publishing for $2.3bn and a proposed $1.2bn acquisition of AT&T’s anime streaming service Crunchyroll....
...“I am my own supplier, selling goods to the buyer/ The torch to the eye of the storm that’s on fire,” he declares on the twanging groove of “No Gold Teeth”....
...Arriving at a central B-stage, Gaga took a seat at a piano to perform “Born This Way” as both torch song and disco stormer....
...My grandfather gave me a gold coin from his time as a partisan in the second world war in Italy. They would carry gold in case they were caught or had to bribe border guards....
...She wore gold anklets, thought to be the prerogative of royal families, enjoyed collecting cars and state of the art cameras. Her most loyal listeners were at home....
...One scoop to start: Warner Music and KKR-backed BMG are competing to buy Pink Floyd’s entire back catalogue for $500mn as the battle to acquire music rights heats up....
...The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley....
...Warner Music declined to comment. Young’s music was still available on Spotify as of Tuesday morning. Young removed his music from Spotify in 2015 because he said the sound quality was too poor....
...The day before, after we pulled away from Kyiv, I’d watched electric-green and gold fields pass by....
...The nine-figure sum that Universal Music Group paid to buy out Bob Dylan’s catalogue shows that there’s still gold in the golden oldies....
...But by selling off just enough of EMI’s parts to placate regulators, Universal emerged with a market share of roughly 40 per cent, something no music company had enjoyed before....
...He hasn’t announced a blank-cheque deal since January, when his Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp V announced a tie-up with the digital lender SoFi....
...This week, Chinese state media released a marketing-cum-music video for the Winter Games, sung and rapped in English for a global audience....
...They stay there for around an hour, bathed in bright light and music (the music influences what they see). They are then encouraged to talk about what they experience....
...Fleetwood Mac and Barry Manilow signalled a modern-day gold rush in music rights....
...But the space being traversed here is less deserving of exploration. ★★☆☆☆ ‘We Will Always Love You’ is released by Virgin EMI...
...The first Olympic climbing champion will be crowned today amid bright lights and a thumping soundtrack of dance and heavy metal music....
...Such agreements aim to prevent what one investor called the “Terra Firma situation” in which Guy Hands’ buyout firm had more than 30 per cent exposure to the collapsed music label EMI....
...I read late every night, by torch and candlelight....
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