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EMI
- EMIMarch 1931 marked the birth of Electric and Musical Industries in London. Two giants, Columbia Graphophone Company and Gramophone Company, merged to form a…
- Capitol RecordsOn the 2nd of February 1942, songwriter Johnny Mercer met with Glenn Wallichs at a restaurant in Hollywood to discuss an investment from Paramount Pictures.
- ParlophoneCarl Lindström Company founded Parlophon in Germany during 1896. The name appeared on gramophones before the firm began pressing records of its own.
- Sony Music PublishingIn 1958, Associated Television acquired a fifty percent stake in Pye Records. Lew Grade founded the British television broadcasting company that year.
- Capitol Music GroupCapitol Music Group emerged in February 2007 as a merger of Capitol Records and Virgin Records America. EMI orchestrated this union to restructure operations…
- Geoff EmerickGeoffrey Ernest Emerick entered the recording industry at age 16. He worked as an assistant engineer at EMI Studios in north London.
- Odeon RecordsMax Straus and Heinrich Zuntz established Odeon Records in Berlin during 1903. They purchased the International Talking Machine Company from Carl Lindström…
- Apple RecordsThe Beatles returned from India in 1968 and officially founded Apple Records as a division of Apple Corps Ltd. This British record label emerged after the…
- United Artists RecordsMax E. Youngstein founded United Artists Records in 1957 to issue movie soundtracks for the film studio of the same name.