EMI is gone

[nofi]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2012/12/29/168159170/reflecting-on-emi-an-industry-giant-felled-in-2012

[godofthunder]

 I couldn't wait to the first to post this!

[Dave W]

Good riddance.

[the mojo hobo]

I couldn't wait to the first to post this!

"This video is currently unavailable"

[godofthunder]

 Sex Pistols EMI, plays for me. 

[OldManC]

I couldn't wait to the first to post this!

Played for me.

[Highlander]

Not in the UK but I think I know what you mean...

An aunt of mine used to work in the factory so we got loads of samples...

[Dave W]

Played for me too.

[daan]

If it weren't for EMI, I wouldn't have a career. A couple guys in the EMI labs basically created the CT scanner "Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield, CBE, FRS, (28 August 1919 – 12 August 2004) was an English electrical engineer who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Allan McLeod Cormack for his part in developing the diagnostic technique of X-ray computed tomography (CT).
from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey_Hounsfield

The first commercially viable CT scanner was invented by Sir Godfrey Hounsfield at EMI Central Research Labs, Great Britain in 1972. EMI owned the distribution rights to the Beatles music and it was their profits which funded the research.[4] Sir Hounsfield and Alan McLeod McCormick shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1979 for the invention of CT scanning.


and for some light reading that will put you right to sleep: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_computed_tomography

[uwe]

I can't gloat - I'll miss EMI. All their sublabels - Odeon, Parlophone, Harvest, hey, even Purple Records! - contained a large part of music I still hear and like. A dinosaur, yes, but I like outsize reptiles.

I strikes me that that is another thing I don't like about the new age online music availabilty: It has brought the "single" back which I think is a retrogressive step compared to the album as an art form. I suddenly feel very old right now ... And have put on Be Bop Deluxe's Modern Music - the album, not the song ... "So kiss that truth good bye, we thrive upon your lies, we've got no alibis tonight ..." (from Orphans of Babylon, the first track on the album).

[godofthunder]

 I wasn't really gloating I have nothing against EMI. Before the Sex Pistols if you mentioned EMI I thought of The Beatles, After The Pistols I think of this song! I loved it, in theme it reminded me of Mott The Hooples Marionette. The suits and bean counters dictating to artists.

[uwe]

Scott, I didn't think you were gloating and I don't think that Johnny Lydon ever did EMI any real harm or meant to. They were just a convenient British institution to hit on. The Pistols made money off that EMI scandal and EMI now has a song about it, no issues about either.

[Highlander]

Skynyrd did no harm to MCA...

[Dave W]

Regardless of whatever good EMI has accomplished, it's another major label out of business. In my book that's a good thing.

[uwe]

A raging anarchist he is.