Word: emi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Connor, 24, is one of the most gifted young rockers around, and it is awkward to have someone of her talent and exuberance tell the music business to stuff its highest award. "I don't agree with her rationale," says Joe Smith, president of Capitol-EMI Music, which is affiliated with O'Connor's record label, Chrysalis. "If Sinead doesn't like these shows, then that's her opinion. They get good ratings. This is not the International Red Cross...
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri counters that only 5% are non-Jews. Angry immigrants warn that any slowdown in approving visas could cost lives. "Jews must get out quickly," says Emi Spielman, who arrived from Chernovtsy two weeks ago. The 60-year-old cobbler is still recovering from a skin graft he needed after an anti-Semitic gang burst into his house in the Soviet Union last April, pinned him down and burned his stomach with a hot iron...
...stand for His Master's Voice -- is the largest chain in Britain, and has opened stores in Australia, Canada and Japan. Among its innovations are in-store music performances, video deejays and listening posts that enable customers to preview records. HMV, which is owned by British recording giant Thorn EMI, plans to open stores in Los Angeles and Boston next year...
...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 to start his own firm) to start a record division. The joint venture allows SBK to keep its discoveries on its own label, which is distributed...
...that void should ever become vacant, lots of candidates are waiting to fill it. "You can't take the New Kids and make a clone," warns Capitol Industries-EMI president Joe Smith. But Starr and Scott are way ahead of him. Starr's 12-year-old son is opening for the New Kids as part of a trio called the Perfect Gentlemen, whose debut album is titled Rated PG (Senator Helms, take note). We may also look forward to the re-emergence of Tiffany, whose album and merchandising are now being handled by Scott. "We'll try to follow...