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...Plus, EMI and the smaller Warner Music had made repeated attempts to merge....
...What changed for Jones was the death of his manager, Gordon Mills, in 1986. “With Gordon Mills dying, you see, I think he had come to the end of his ideas,” Jones says....
...But the hundreds of songs in the boxset testify also to Mayall’s bandleader ear for talent, and the formal adventurousness that he incorporated into the starchy world of blues purism....
...Great Point, which was involved in financing disaster movie Greenland, is one of a number of groups aiming to tap investor interest in media content, including Guernsey incorporated US music publisher Round...
...And in each country, he recorded the music he heard on a hefty EMI L2 reel-to-reel tape recorder....
...A Washington hearing on Universal Music’s £1.2bn bid for EMI’s recorded music business has exposed deep rifts among industry members and regulators over whether the deal would rebuild a shattered industry...
...However, opposition from Martin Mills, founder of Beggars Group, Europe’s largest independent, has swayed others in the independent music lobby groups to which Beggars is an influential contributor....
...From Mr Martin Mills....
...But Martin Mills, whose Beggars Group is Europe’s largest independent music company, remained opposed, saying a Universal-EMI merger would be unhealthy. Additional reporting by Alex Barker in Brussels...
...Mr Zelnik is co-president of Impala, a European lobby group known for objecting to past attempts to merge EMI with Warner Music and its long battle against the Sony-BMG merger that formed Sony Music....
...The likes of Sir Philip Green, the retail entrepreneur, and Guy Hands, former chairman of EMI, the music business, have made a career out of restructuring undervalued companies....
...The radio and newspapers, scouts and music clubs, farms and steel mills – all came under state control. The Red Army remained firmly in place – as it did until the 1990s....
...He bought Bertelsmann’s music publishing division and now EMI’s recorded music arm. Each time he went out shopping, investors with memories of the Messier era inevitably fretted....
...A sale of EMI would reshape both halves of the global music industry, representing the biggest shake-up in recorded music since Sony Music merged with Bertelsmann’s BMG labels in 2004, and the largest upheaval...
...It sold savings bonds issued by AIG, the US insurer famously laid low by the credit crunch, to customers that included Air Miles tycoon Sir Keith Mills....
...It’s as if Ned Ludd’s followers had gone around smashing the hand-looms of those reluctant to work in the textile mills....
...The bus depot sat next to railway tracks: the dishwasher incorporated the rhythm of the passing trains into the piano-playing he did by night under another name....
...The right hand diagram shows the same structure, but with a super-senior tranche incorporated. This is where things start to get rather messy....
...It has something for everyone, having become a centre for culture with its wonderful cathedral, music festival and art exhibitions....
...‘The Berry Vest Of Gilbert O’Sullivan’ is on EMI, ‘A Scruff At Heart’ is on ByGum Records....
...Traders piled into EMI amid rumours of a bid approach for the music company from either a private equity group or Warner Music....
...Instead of a run-of-the-mill Mercedes or BMW, the chief executive is, today at least, driving a bright pink Ford Mustang – a gift from Kelly Clarkson....
...Cynics may claim that if market share was the main barometer, EMI could soon become an Aim member, but Mills is sympathetic to EMI’s plight....
...EMI bounced 3.9 per cent to 219p as City analysts took the view that Wednesday’s profits warning - the latest in a string of disappointments from the music company - is likely to be the cataylst for corporate...
...Apple is capitalised at $72bn, while EMI is worth £1.9bn ($3.7bn) and Warner Music $3bn....
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