Videos

Morning on the Farm (1899) by Trevor Lloyd Williams

New BBC Radio 4  series starts Monday 23rd – Friday 27th November 2015 each day at 1.45 pm (except Wednesday 25th at 3.45pm) This programme will be available shortly after broadcast. Cerys Matthews and Tristram Penna use their music industry careers to examine the legacy and stories behind some of the first Gramophone records recorded in Britain from… Read more »

Memories of EMI – Malcolm Addey on “Move It!”

The EMI Archive Trust was delighted to sit down with the wonderful Malcolm Addey. He was hired in March 1958 as a trainee/assistant engineer and after an unprecedented short three months was promoted and invited to join the renowned “pop” recording team of Peter Bown and Stuart Eltham. By July he had already recorded Cliff… Read more »

Yuletide Greetings

The EMI Archive Trust would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas. This tree’s revolving musical base is from Germany. Items like this were very popular around the beginning of the 20th century. This one is powered by a single spring, which rotates the Christmas tree and powers the two tune musical mechanism. We… Read more »

Memories of EMI – Kevin Ryan at Abbey Road Studios

The lovely Kevin Ryan (co author of the Recording the Beatles book) shared a memory of his time working on the book within Abbey Road Studios and at the EMI Archives.   If you are interested in taking part or would like more information about our Memories of EMI Campaign please contact us on: email:… Read more »

Forgotton Heroes: The Indian Army in the Great War

EMI has a long history of supporting artists and music in India. The Gramophone and Typewriter, Ltd. engaged agents in India as early as 1900 and soon established their Indian offices by 1901. In 1906 the site for a record pressing factory had been chosen in Sealdah, Calcutta. By 1946 The Gramophone Company of India… Read more »

War is coming – July 28 1914

On July 28, 1914, one month after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife by a Serbian Nationalist, the Austro-Hungarian Empire declares war on Serbia, thus initiating the First World War. By August 4th 1914 Britain declares war on Germany, Austria’s ally. Published at the start of the First World War this popular… Read more »

Memories of EMI – Nigel Bewley

We sat down with Nigel Bewley  (Operations Manager and head sound engineer at the British Library Sound Archive) for our Memories of EMI Campaign. In this short video he shares this memory about his time making field recordings at one of the EMI factories in the early 90s. Nigel Bewley is a specialist sound engineer who worked… Read more »

Memories of EMI – Brian Kehew at Abbey Road Studios

We sat down with Brian Kehew (Co-Author of the Recording the Beatles book) for our Memories of EMI Campaign. In this short video he shares how they found one of the key pieces of technology used on many Beatles recordings and the software model that followed that discovery. If you are interested in taking part… Read more »

Memories on Film – Ken Scott at Abbey Road Studios

The EMI Archive Trust was delighted to sit down with the legendary Ken Scott at Abbey Road Studios. Ken Scott worked for EMI, at Abbey Road Studios where he began his time working in the tape library and worked his way up to become an incredible engineer who worked with the Beatles and on many… Read more »