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Which isn't to say music executives are sitting around wringing their hands. It takes time for any corporation to recognize that its universe has changed, and major labels don't exactly turn on a dime. For Martin Bandier, chairman and CEO of EMI Music Publishing, the dime dropped three years ago when his 11-year-old son Max gave him a present: his 100 favorite Motown songs. "I said, 'But we have hundreds of copies!'" Bandier recalls. "He said, 'This is in a different place--on my hard drive.' It was scary." Bandier immediately convened a war council...
...energetic partnership that was formed in 1986 by Stephen Swid, Martin Bandier and Charles Koppelman to produce records for other companies. The firm scored a major coup that year when it paid $125 million to buy CBS's music-publishing division, which held the rights to more than 200,000 songs ranging from Over the Rainbow to the score from Hair. Less than three years later, SBK turned around and sold the catalog to Thorn EMI, the British entertainment giant, for $295 million. As part of that deal, EMI gave $30 million to Koppelman and Bandier (Swid had left...
...Bandier, 49, a former real estate lawyer, concentrates on business, while Koppelman, 50, minds the music. He has spent 30 years in the industry, including a stint as a member of the Ivy Three, a pop group that recorded a 1960 hit, Yogi, about the cartoon bear. As a music executive in the 1970s, Koppelman produced such hits as Dolly Parton's Here You Come Again and the Barbra Streisand-Neil Diamond duet You Don't Bring Me Flowers...
...decade SBK will rank with such now established upstart labels as A&M and Geffen. With their sizzling track record, the two partners expect the company to grow rapidly, even in the face of a sluggish economy. "When people feel good they buy records," says Bandier. "When they are sad they do the same thing...
Singles: On Divinity Field at 2.--L. A. Welsman '26 vs. K. S. Pfaffman '24, Bernard Bandier '26 vs. L. H. Bondi '25. At. 3: W. T. Smith '26 vs. W. H. Ingraham '25; G. H. Perkins '26 vs. Alden Briggs '25; G. D. Debevoise '26 vs. George Guild '23. At 4: G. M. Laimbeer '26 vs. J. M. Cabot...
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