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...Such cold-bloodedness is what evokes the "locust" comparison; so far, though, that hasn't been bad for business. - By Peter Gumbel Leapfrogging Rock Stars When British rockers Coldplay released the first track off their new CD last week, you could almost sense the relief at record label EMI. Chairman Eric Nicoli partly blamed a 13% dip in annual profits on the delay of the group's latest album. All the more irritating, then, that Crazy Frog's Axel F, mixing the theme tune from the Beverly Hills Cop movie with an infuriating mobile-phone ring tone - think two-stroke...
Suddenly Burton was famous, and not entirely happy about it. The Grey Album didn't just use unlicensed samples from two of the world's most famous artists-it was only unlicensed samples, and the Beatles' label, EMI, is vigilant about enforcing its copyrights. "You couldn't make a more illegal album," says Burton. "When it spread beyond being a little art project, of course EMI came after me." It wasn't just the cease-and-desist business that bothered him. He was also a little put out by the acclaim heaped on his Frankenstein's monster (ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY named...
...also both willful eccentrics; Gorillaz, which is made up of, usually, Albarn and a few friends, doesn't actually appear in its videos or onstage. Instead Gorillaz is represented by postapocalyptic cartoon characters, none of which are gorillas. Gorillaz also happens to record for Virgin Records, a division of EMI. "The label was very concerned that I was working with someone who had just hijacked a Beatles record," says Albarn. "Oh, well...
...settled into a comfortable routine of routinelessness. "We just chased ideas and tried anything we wanted," says Burton. Those are words to chill a record executive's heart. And, sure enough, so many ideas were tried, chopped up and discarded that production went well past its initial deadline. When EMI announced in February that Gorillaz's and Coldplay's albums were both delayed, the company's stock dropped 16%. Burton says that gave him no retributive thrill. "We had a place we wanted to get to. We didn't care about anything outside the studio...
...years later, Idol's greatest-hits album, released as an afterthought by EMI, became a surprise platinum seller. Idol, sensing opportunity, got a band together and hit the road, filling 3,000-seat venues on the strength of his catalog and charisma. ("There's not much you can do about the face at my age," he says, "but you can keep your body together. I can still take my shirt off.") Impressed by his drawing power, Sanctuary Records--current home of Morrissey, Robert Plant and Kiss--signed him to the 2003 deal that resulted in Devil's Playground, which...