She then landed a contract with a major label, Virgin Records, recording Play Me Backwards ( 1992 ) for Virgin shortly before the company was purchased by EMI.

After a dramatic 7 % decline in the British market share, from 16 % to 9 % and the announcement that EMI had sustained a loss of £ 260 million in 2006 / 2007, EMI was acquired by Terra Firma Capital Partners in August 2007 which purchased it for £ 4. 2 billion.

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 ).

Occasionally, he simply licenses the brand to a company that has purchased a division from him, such as Virgin Mobile USA, Virgin Mobile Australia, Virgin Radio and Virgin Music ( now part of EMI ).

After the law was passed, EMI purchased the rights to programs that no stations claimed exclusive rights to, and on January 1, 1990, a special national feed was launched for cable and satellite subscribers outside of the New York City market.

CCP was distributed by EMI Records South Africa who purchased the company in 1972.

It was purchased by EMI in 1996 from current owners Dan R. Brock and Eddie DeGarmo and is now part of the EMI Christian Music Group.

In 1997 ( see 1997 in music ), along with its affiliated companies, Narada was purchased by EMI and put under the aegis of Virgin Records.

In 1991, EMI reissued the " American Pie " single in the United Kingdom and McLean performed on Top of the Pops.

* January 6 – Record company EMI sacks the controversial United Kingdom punk rock group the Sex Pistols.

In 1999, Williams was signed to Capitol Records in the United States, a part of EMI.

Queen left Elektra Records, their label in the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand, and signed onto EMI / Capitol Records.

The first commercially viable CT scanner was invented by Sir Godfrey Hounsfield in Hayes, United Kingdom, at EMI Central Research Laboratories using X-rays.

The group recorded an album in 2008, entitled Mosaic, which was released in 2009 on Blue Note Records / EMI, and toured the United States in promotion of the album from January until April 2009.

The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a British multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Two years later, the Gramophone Company subsidiary became EMI Records Ltd as well, and in February 1979, EMI Ltd acquired United Artists Records and with it their subsidiary labels Liberty Records and Imperial Records.

On 21 September 2012, the sale of EMI to UMG was approved in both Europe and the United States by the European Commission and Federal Trade Commission respectively.

In both the United Kingdom and the United States, the single was released by Apple, although EMI retained the rights to the song as part of their contract.

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.

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.

On 21 September 2012, the sale of EMI to UMG was approved in both Europe and the United States by the European Commission and Federal Trade Commission respectively.

The group signed to EMI for its British releases but in 1997 the group signed to both Virgin and Sparrow Records for distribution in secular and Christian markets in the United States.

It is also the headquarters for the publishing arms of both the Southern Baptist Convention ( LifeWay Christian Resources ) and the United Methodist Church ( United Methodist Publishing House ), as well as a number of Christian record companies such as EMI Christian Music Group, Provident Label Group and Word Records.

It is owned by Virgin Records / EMI and distributed by Caroline Distribution in the United States.

Her discography features complete recordings of Die Zauberflöte ( as the Queen of Night, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham, 1937 – 38, for EMI ), and Rigoletto, with Jan Peerce and Leonard Warren, conducted by Renato Cellini ( 1950 ) which was the first RCA Victor complete opera recording ( with a few minor cuts ) made in the United States for commercial release.

( Dutton, EMI Great Artists of the Century, Naxos Historical )

In 1980, EMI dropped the United Artists name and revived the Liberty name.

Initially, EMI used Liberty to reissue the United Artists, Liberty and Imperial catalogues.

Hendrik Bouman has received many awards for his 25 recordings of which there are more than 45 re-editions, for DGG / Archiv, EMI, REM / Radio Canada, Baroque-Nouveau, notably: the Edison Prize ( Netherlands ), 3 Deutscher Schallplattenpreis, Artist of the Year by the Deutsche Phono-Akademie and the career Prize for Young Artists from the Federal State of North-Rhine Westphalia ( Germany ), Le Grand Prix National du Disque, 6 Diapason d ’ Or, Répertoire Recommandé, 9-Repertoire ; Diapason 5 ( France ), and the Early Music Award, Gramophone Award ( England ).

The absence of the songs from a US Capitol album was partially a consequence of The Beatles ' unwillingness to include single releases on their contemporaneous albums, partially a consequence of their arrangement with United Artists in 1964, and partially due to the habit ( of EMI affiliates worldwide ) of recompiling The Beatles ' British releases for local markets.

However, as of 2012, the band remains listed on the " Artists " page of the EMI Music website.

Liberty Records in turn was acquired by United Artists, and the Blue Note imprint went dormant until it was revived by record executive Bruce Lundvall under the ownership of EMI.

The Mediarts catalog is now owned by EMI through its purchase of United Artists Records and, going full circle, managed by Capitol Records.

They were initially signed to Harvest Records ( a division of EMI ) in the UK and United Artists Records in the USA.

Compilations & Guest Appearances: 1998 Seven Times Seven – Oliver Shanty and Friends ( Satva Music Germany ) 1999 Voices From The World – Various Artists ( NMC ) 1999 Sweet Sorrw, Glykeria – Amal featured on the Single “ The Mothers Prayer " ( NMC ) 1999 Radio Darwesh, Amal appeared as a guest performing 2 Songs ( Polygram Italy ) 2000, In Paradiso Conte, Duet With " Stadio " ( EMI Italy ) 2002 Majles Arab Songs ( Virgin ) 2002 Ethno ( Eros, Greece ) 2003 EMI Australia 2005 Label Bleu – France.

Butler writing credits include songs for Tree, United Artists music, April Blackwood, Great Cumberland, EMI and, most recently, his own Larry Butler Music.

The Jazz Singer is a 1980 American drama film and a remake of the 1927 classic The Jazz Singer, released by EMI Films and United Artists.

He still had a record contract and initially recorded with Martin Ace and Terry Williams, but needed two attempts to complete the album ‘' Before Your Very Eyes ’', release of which was delayed for five years, when EMI took over United Artists.

Parsons had already acted as assistant engineer on The Beatles ' Abbey Road and Let It Be, had recently engineered Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, and had produced several acts for EMI Records.

These companies are often children of or partially owned by general market labels such as Warner, EMI, and Capitol Records, giving successful artists an opportunity to " cross over " into mainstream markets.

Consequently McLean was left without a record contract in the USA, but through continuing deals the Chain Lightning album was released by EMI in Europe and by Festival Records in Australia.

The Christian record companies include EMI Christian Music Group, Provident Label Group and Word Records.

Category: EMI Records artists

It was released by EMI Records, on their Columbia label, in December and was championed by the offshore radio station Radio Caroline.

In July 2010 it was reported, however, that David Sharpe, vice-president of Island Records ( to whom Jones had moved, from EMI, for £ 1. 5m in October 2009 ), had emailed colleagues demanding that they " pull back this project immediately or get my money back " and asking if the record had been " a sick joke ".

* The Music of Dudley Moore – EMI Australia ( Cube Records ) TOOFA. 14-1 / 2

Category: EMI Records artists

All six Eurovision contest song candidates were recorded by Newton-John and included on her Long Live Love album, her first for the EMI Records label.

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.

On April 19, 2011, Country Music Television announced that Bridges had signed a recording contract with Blue Note Records / EMI Music Group.

The album was released via his own NPG Records with distribution through EMI.

* Shaking The Blues Away, Rob Fisher and The Coffee Club Orchestra with Garrison Keillor ( 1992, Angel Records in association with EMI Records Ltd .)

In 1980, Rodney left Island Records, and set up the Burning Spear label, which he signed to EMI, debuting on the label with Hail H. I. M., recorded at Marley's Tuff Gong studio and co-produced by Aston Barrett.

Circa became a subsidiary of, and was later subsumed into, Virgin Records, which in turn was acquired by EMI.

After Martin left to form the Associated Independent Recording ( AIR ) Studios in 1965, the Parlophone Company was absorbed into EMI's Gramophone Company unit ( renamed EMI Records in 1973 ) with the Parlophone label maintaining its identity.