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Since records began : EMI, the first 100 years

Title: Since records began : EMI, the first 100 years / Peter Martland ; consultant editor, Ruth Edge.
Author: Martland, Peter.
Publication: London : Batsford, 1997.

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359 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Summary

This volume tells the story of how sound was transformed from the Washington D.C. laboratory experiments of Charles Summer Tainter and Emile Berliner over a century ago into the vast international entertainment industry of today. EMI is the company that signed the Beatles and it was in the forefront of the 1960s revolution in popular music. EMI's various labels now include acts as diverse as Garth Brooks, Pink Floyd, Tina Turner, Blur, and Roberto Alagna. Over the past 100 years, the company has owned or been connected with almost every record label in the world, including Columbia, RCA Victor, Liberty, Virgin, Angel, Imperial, MGM, Mercury and many others.
The basis of this book, lavishly illustrated with a wealth of photographs, documents and recording memorabilia, is the previously untapped archive of EMI, a collection of over eight million documents and over half a million records, covering almost every conceivable recording artist - from Caruso to the Beach Boys. The author has also had access to Sony Music archives in New York, Capitol Records archives in Los Angeles, and rare documents in the Smithsonian Institute and Library of Congress in Washington D.C.

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EMI, the first 100 years

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History.

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Princeton University Library