‘The EMI Home Guardian’ is a little known newspaper created for and by C-Coy. 17th Btn. (Home Guard) based on the EMI Factory site, Hayes, Middlesex throughout WWII. This extract, written 80 years ago, marks the D-Day Landings, 6th June 1944, one of the most remarkable Allied wartime operations. ‘The EMI Home Guardian’ Since my… Read more »
On the 13th May 1907 opera singer (later Dame) Nellie Melba ceremonially placed the cornerstone for the Gramophone Company and Typewriter Ltd, New Cabinet Factory at Hayes, Middlesex. It is rumoured during this ceremony a time capsule of recorded music was deposited with the cornerstone. Whether or not this is true is difficult to say.… Read more »
The launch of the most extensive and detailed catalogue ever of the Gramophone Company’s legacy of era-defining recordings from all around the world – ‘The Gramophone Company Discography’
Music’s tech nightmare part 1: The quiet storm – the 1920s witnessed astonishing technological change, and music was being left behind
Music’s tech nightmare part 2: The legendary Louis Sterling
Music’s tech nightmare part 3: No spoils for this Victor
Why the UK messed up the ‘Jazz Age’
The roaring and soaring 1920s
Bhaskar Menon, the founding Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of EMI Music Worldwide and prominent music and film executive, died on March 4, 2021 at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 86. He is survived by Sumitra, his wife of 49 years, sons Siddhartha and Vishnu, and sister Vasantha Menon. A citizen of the… Read more »
The EMI Archive Trust have the great pleasure to share an announcement from Prof. Edwin Seroussi, Director of the Jewish Music Research Centre (JMRC), for the results of this extraordinary multi-disciplinary collaboration project ‘Judeo–Spanish Songs from the EMI Archive Trust (1907-1912)’. This entire project, including the 78 tracks is now open for listening on the Jewish Music Research Centre… Read more »