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...nicely on her own. Certainly some intricate maneuvering took place during negotiations for a new recording of Romeo et Juliette, masterminded for RCA by Placido Domingo, who plays the hero. Gheorghiu backed out of a pledge to the project--but guess who she will record the opera with for EMI...
...Late last year she and her lawyers approached four record companies, Sony, PolyGram, DreamWorks SKG and Disney, asking for a $100 million deal. Unsatisfied by their offers, she returned to Virgin, for which she has previously recorded, and got her $80 million. In part this may be because Thorn EMI, Virgin's parent company, is rumored to be looking to sell its music holdings and thus needs to hang on to assets like Jackson to ensure those holdings remain attractive...
...sales generated between $750 million and $900 million in revenues last year. Fans are young and old; many are religious, but some just like the music. "There's more money and better distribution than there was two or three years ago," says Billy Ray Hearn, chairman and CEO of EMI Christian Music Group. "We're reaching more audiences through mass marketing at Wal-Marts and K Marts...
With George Martin's guidance at EMI, they improved immediately. Lennon finds a rude authority in his voice; it blossoms into the plaintive curl that distinguished his Beatles career and oddly disappeared later. McCartney's "wooos'' get full-bodied; instead of the girlish falsetto of early days, he now screams like an electrocuted tomcat. And they suddenly learned how to write songs--the Beatles' enduring legacy. Even their cover versions sound great. "What we generated was fantastic when we played straight rock,'' Lennon says in an interview heard on the album. "And there was nobody to touch us in Britain...
Much depends on the credibility and good faith of the people doing the resurrecting. In the case of the new Selena CD, her brother worked with Nancy Brennan, a vice president at EMI, in picking every song on the album and in selecting the producers who helped to complete them. "[Selena's] family members were her best friends," says Brennan. "Your legacy is much more protected when your family is in charge...