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...On top of Granada, ITV and Global, he filled non-executive roles at Endemol and Virgin Media. His expertise in online retail is less obvious....
...To his dismay, his record label at the time, Virgin/EMI, turned it down in 2001. A version of the album leaked in 2011....
...Taking after his ruthless dealmaker boss, Universal’s Lucian Grainge orchestrated a bold takeover of the struggling record label EMI in 2012 that turned the industry’s “Big Four” into the “Big Three”....
.... ★★☆☆☆ ‘We Will Always Love You’ is released by Virgin EMI...
.... ★★☆☆☆ ‘Imploding the Mirage’ is released by Virgin EMI...
.... ★★★☆☆ ‘Pick Me Up Off the Floor’ is released by Virgin EMI/Blue Note Records...
.... ★★★★☆ ‘No Geography’ is released by Virgin EMI...
.... ★★☆☆☆ ‘Ripples’ is released by Virgin EMI...
...London’s Oxford Street. 1930s Begins producing radio and television sets under the HMV and Marconiphone brand names 1931 Joins with Columbia Graphophone Company to form Electric and Musical Industries (EMI...
.... ★★★☆☆ ‘It’s About Time’ is released by Virgin EMI...
...Virgin gave it a go anyway and, after forming a joint venture with EMI, went “hell for leather” by advertising it in a prime-time slot during the soap opera Coronation Street, rather than opting for low-cost...
.... ★★★☆☆ ‘High As Hope’ is released by Virgin EMI...
...Migos Culture II (Quality Control Music/Virgin EMI) Last year Migos released Culture on the back of their huge hit “Bad and Boujee”....
...Beck Colors (Virgin EMI) Beck follows up the gloomy but richly realised Morning Phase, winner of best album Grammy in 2015, with a disappointingly synthetic swerve into brightness....
...Benjamin Clementine I Tell a Fly (Behind/Virgin EMI) Baffled to find himself designated an “alien of extraordinary ability” by his US visa, a category for visiting performers, Benjamin Clementine has...
...The Killers Wonderful Wonderful (Virgin EMI) The Killers have gone from the glammy synth-rock revivalists of 2004’s Hot Fuss, when the Las Vegans were often mistaken as a British band, to the full-throated...
...Jake Bugg Hearts That Strain (Virgin EMI) “Just look how far I fell down in the wishing well,” Jake Bugg sings on the opening lines to his fourth album, Hearts That Strain....
...Vic Mensa The Autobiography (Virgin EMI) It is common for debut albums to be named after their creators, a way of emphasising the newcomer’s arrival....
...Lil Yachty Teenage Emotions (Virgin EMI) “Little miss lady in the yellow, hello, would you like to push pedals through the meadow with me?” Lil Yachty sings. Rap purists shrink in horror....
...Katy Perry Witness (Virgin EMI) Katy Perry’s appearance singing “Roar” was a highlight of Ariana Grande’s recent One Love Manchester concert, a defiant deployment of one of pop’s great empowerment anthems...
...Stevie Parker The Cure (Virgin EMI) Bristol-based singer-songwriter Stevie Parker emerges from the more reflective end of the mainstream pop spectrum, the one where Lana Del Rey sighs about self-destruction...
...Jamiroquai Automaton (Virgin EMI) Jamiroquai are back after seven years with an album inspired by the rise of artificial intelligence....
...Big Sean I Decided (Virgin EMI) “Pay attention who you’re getting close to,” Big Sean counsels on “Voices in My Head/Stick to the Plan”, in which the Detroit rapper and his producers, Metro Boomin and...
...‘Now’ is released on Virgin EMI on September 29 Photograph: Keith Mayhew...
...Credits: Decca, Universal Music, Virgin EMI...
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