The new studio album, entitled Phoenix, was released on Frontiers Records on 14 April 2008 ( via EMI / Capitol on 15 April in North America ), along with a world tour to promote.

Groups created include Toshiba Music Industries / Toshiba EMI ( 1960 ), Toshiba International Corporation ( 1970s ) Toshiba Electrical Equipment ( 1974 ), Toshiba Chemical ( 1974 ), Toshiba Lighting and Technology ( 1989 ), Toshiba America Information Systems ( 1989 ) and Toshiba Carrier Corporation ( 1999 ).

The Ampex reel-to-reel tape version of The Beatles, released in 1970 after Capitol / EMI ceased manufacturing of pre-recorded reel tapes in North America, featured eight tracks in edited form: " Dear Prudence ", " Glass Onion ", " Don't Pass Me By ", " Why Don't We Do It In The Road ?".

His post-Beatles career included work with Paul McCartney ( including Band On The Run, which netted Emerick another Grammy, London Town, and Flaming Pie ), Elvis Costello ( for whom he produced Imperial Bedroom and All This Useless Beauty ), Badfinger, Art Garfunkel, America, Gino Vannelli, Supertramp, Cheap Trick, Nazareth, Chris Bell, Split Enz, Big Country, Gentle Giant, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Ultravox, Matthew Fisher's first solo album " Journey's End ," Kate Bush's demo tape to EMI, which landed her a record deal, and Jeff Beck, as well as Nellie McKay's critically acclaimed 2004 debut CD Get Away from Me.

It continued to operate the label with moderate success until 1972, when it was retired and replaced by the EMI Records imprint, so if you see any Columbia Records manufactured outside North America between 1972 and 1992, they are rare indeed.

Nipper continued to appear on RCA Victor records in America ( except for a period from around 1968 to 1977 ), while EMI owned the His Master's Voice label in the UK until the 1980s, and the HMV shops until 1998.

In an even bigger blow, the band's longtime label, EMI America Records, went bankrupt during the same period.

Belinda revealed in a program aired by Televisa, " Bailando por un Sueño " and " Bailando por la Boda de Tus Sueños ", that EMI wanted her to spend one week in Los Angeles recording " Utopía 2 ", her first album in English which was released in Europe and North America by EMI International on September 25, 2007.

Yet the combined sales of their first two albums was enough to convince EMI America to compile the best tracks from the two UK albums and issue an album ( Built for Speed ) in the U. S. in 1982.

No longer with EMI America, they entered the studio with Nile Rodgers for the record titled Let's Go Faster, issued by Liberation in 1990.

Capitol then became the main distributor for EMI recordings in North and South America, with RCA distributing its recordings through Decca in the United Kingdom on the RCA ( later RCA Victor ) label.

In the late 70s, Capitol's parent company EMI later purchased United Artists Records and Capitol gained the American rights to the Let It Be soundtrack album ( along with the America rights to another, earlier, UA Beatles movie soundtrack LP, 1964's A Hard Day's Night ).

He signed with EMI America Records and in 1982 released his best-known song, " Bad to the Bone ", and an album of the same name.

The group moved to the EMI label ( and MCA in North America ), where they recorded the 1991 LP Abracadabra.

These songs are all collected in the release The Liberty Years, released on EMI America

This was necessary because EMI owned another record label called Columbia, which operated in every market except North America, Spain and Japan.

After fulfilling their contract with Interscope Records it was announced EMI Label Services has signed a deal with 50 Cent ’ s label, G-Unit Records, in which EMI will distribute and promote releases on the G-Unit roster in North America.

Rennie had been a key figure in promoting The Beatles in America ; he had been sent to New York by George Martin and all EMI product was channeled through him for distribution by EMI's American partners.

After being dropped by Interscope Records in 2009, Lloyd Banks announced on Friday, August 13, 2010 on MTV News that EMI Label Services has signed a deal with 50 Cent ’ s label, G-Unit Records, in which EMI will distribute and promote releases on the G-Unit roster in North America including Lloyd Banks third album H. F. M.

Transglobal Music, an affiliate of EMI, held the licenses to The Beatles ' output in America, and promptly ordered Vee-Jay to halt their manufacturing and distribution of Beatles records.

DualDisc was a type of double-sided optical disc product developed by a group of record companies including MJJ Productions Inc, EMI Music, Universal Music Group, Sony / BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and 5. 1 Entertainment Group and later under the aegis of the Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ).

Recording took place at EMI Studios, Abbey Road, London.

In both the UK and the US Decca took up the LP promptly and enthusiastically, in 1949, giving the British arm an enormous advantage over EMI, which for some years tried to stick exclusively to the old format, thereby forfeiting competitive advantage to Decca, both artistically and financially.

Citigroup ( which held $ 4 billion in debt ) took 100 % ownership of EMI Group from Terra Firma Capital Partners on 1 February 2011, writing off £ 2. 2 billion of debt and reducing EMI's debt load by 65 %.

The formal trademark transfer from EMI took place in 2003. presumably because the rights to Nipper in Canada are part of the RCA brand portfolio now owned by Technicolor SA and licensed to other companies.

EMI took Boult's side, and the orchestra apologised.

EMI executives, fearing they might lose their new singer, took the precaution of driving from Stockholm to Frida's home in Eskilstuna the next morning with a recording contract for her to sign.

Outraged, Bolan took advantage of the timely lapsing of his Fly Records contract and left for EMI, who gave him his own record label, the T. Rex Wax Co. Its bag and label featured an iconic head-and-shoulders image of Bolan.

Although originally a classical pianist, Barry took a correspondence course ( with jazz composer Bill Russo ) and working as an arranger for the Jack Parnell and Ted Heath's Orchestra, he formed his own band in 1957, The John Barry Seven, with whom he had some hit records on the EMI Columbia label, including " Hit and Miss ", the theme tune he composed for the BBC's Juke Box Jury programme, a cover of the Ventures ' " Walk Don't Run ", and a cover of the theme for the United Artists Western The Magnificent Seven.

The formal reassignment of British registered trade marks, including the " magic notes " logo, from EMI took place in 1993.

When pianist Artur Schnabel undertook his pioneering complete recording of the Beethoven sonatas in the 1930s, he told EMI that if he didn't complete the cycle, they should have Kempff complete the remainder-even though the two pianists took noticeably different approaches to the composer ( for example, Schnabel preferred extremely fast or slow tempos, while Kempff preferred moderate ones ).

Since the turn of the millennium, FSOL took a more independent turn with their career, releasing their more psychedelic Amorphous Androgynous on an independent label, The Isness on Artful Records and Alice In Ultraland on the progressive Harvest Records ( an arm of EMI ).

In 1987 the purchase of the Jarnkonst group of Nordic light fitting companies and closure of the Buckie lamp factory signalled a new drive by parent Thorn EMI to trade an export and ‘ colonies ’ mentality for a multi-cultural, international outlook, one that took account of the forthcoming Single European Act.

The General Council performs the tasks which the ECB took over from the EMI and which, owing to the derogation of one or more Member States, still have to be performed in Stage Three of Economic and Monetary Union ( EMU ).

As a result of this EMI took action against Gerald Palmer to stop the bootlegs and agreed to grant a Worldwide License to Operation Seraphim, ( the bands own record label ) for the three albums they own ( In The Region – Aerie Faerie & The Fall Of Hyperion ).

Citigroup took ownership of EMI Group from Terra Firma on 1 February 2011, wiping out the firm's investments and writing off £ 2. 2 billion of debt.

The EMI itself took over from the earlier European Monetary Cooperation Fund ( EMCF ).

Siffre took exception to the lyric objecting to what he describes as " lazy writing " ( in the sleeve notes of the EMI re-mastered CD of the source album Remember My Song ): " Attacking two of the usual scapegoats, women and gays, is lazy writing.

EMI continued to distribute Epic and Okeh label material on the Columbia label in the UK until the distribution deal with EMI expired in 1968 when CBS took over distribution directly.

In 1995 Escom's retail presence on the high streets of the United Kingdom expanded massively when it took over many branches of the Rumbelows electrical chain, which were being sold off by Rumbelows owner Thorn EMI.

Magnus Nygren, at the time A & R at the Swedish division of EMI Music, took interest and arranged a meeting.

After leaving EMI in 1999, Gayle took to the West End stage and played Belle in Disney's Beauty and the Beast.

In one of its highest-profile and most expensive acquisitions, Thorn EMI took over Richard Branson's Virgin Records in 1992.

In the 1970s, he became the co-owner of British Lion Films ; Spikings later joined EMI when it took over British Lion.