Word: emi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...acts. U.S. law prohibits American companies from hiring Cuban musicians directly, so when European and Japanese labels sign Cuban performers, the American companies sometimes step in as Stateside distributors. In other cases, the musicians are signed by the American companies' foreign subsidiaries--Valdes, for example, is technically signed to EMI Canada, making it possible for EMI's Blue Note label in the U.S. to release...
...Best was replaced by another Liverpool drummer, basset-eyed Ringo Starr (born Richard Starkey in 1940). After passing an audition that their manager, Brian Epstein, had arranged with EMI's Parlophone label, the group cut its first single, Love Me Do, a moderate hit. In January 1963 a second single, Please Please Me, went to No. 1, and Beatlemania was born...
...stop the sale of a recording of the Beatles singing drunkenly in Hamburg, Germany, in 1962. What Harrison called one of the band's "crummiest" performances was caught on tape when the not-yet Fab Four went to the Star Club to play their last gig after signing with EMI. Unfortunately, the Liverpudlian lads had a little too much zu trinken beforehand. Lingasong Music, which wanted to release the tapes, claimed John Lennon had agreed to the recording. Harrison disputed this: "One drunk person recording another bunch of drunks does not constitute a business deal...
...military reports, a 1988 Air Force Studyand the other a $35 million three-year Pentagoninvestigation, have studied the effects of EMI onaircraft. Yet, findings remain classified, withaccess denied to both the public and NTSBinvestigators of TWA Flight...
...Boeing 747-100 like Flight 800 has over 150miles of electrical wiring, Scarry says, and manysystems can be disabled or act erratically in thepresence of EMI. According to Scarry, EMI cancause a pilot flying such a craft to lose controlof steering mechanisms as the aircraft controlsurfaces (rudders, ailerons and flaps) becomeunresponsive to cockpit "fly by wire" controls...