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

I had that weird feeling when I came across this crowd shot whilst scanning Don McLean images for Universal (Music Group) I remembered going to this free concert at Hyde Park (though I didn’t remember that it was May 1975, or that I’d recently turned 17). I thought ‘wouldn’t it be funny if I could… Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »