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...Michigan Daily on October 14. Fred LaBour, the Daily's music critic and the author of the article, appeared rather confident that Paul has been dead since 1966. He began his story by saying unequivocally, "Paul McCartney was killed in an automobile accident in early November 1966, after leaving EMI recording studios tired, sad, and dejected...
...biggest U.S. stake. It has $2.9 billion invested, mainly in petroleum (Royal Dutch/Shell), chemicals, textiles, insurance and a range of consumer items that includes Brown & Williamson's Viceroy cigarettes, Unilever's laundry products and Good Humor ice cream, and hot-selling Capitol Records, in which EMI Ltd. has a controlling interest. Current sterling-export restrictions are making expansion difficult but not impossible. Much as U.S. firms do in Europe, Bowater Paper went to U.S. capital markets for its share of a new $14 million newsprint plant that it is building jointly with the Newhouse newspaper chain...
...surprise, London's Decca Records concluded that the cover was "in dubious taste," and refused to distribute the album on its release date two months ago, thus holding up sales that probably would have amounted to $1,000,000. Decca may have been thinking of rival EMI's problem in 1966 when its U.S. subsidiary, Capitol Records, had to recall 500,000 copies of a Beatles album because of the cover. It showed the Beatles, in butcher smocks, laden with chunks of raw meat and the decapitated bodies of dolls...
...deserves a place in those ranks is Martin himself, who has emerged as Britain's top pop-record producer, moved to his own label, and started writing his own songs and movie scores, but who will continue to be musical father-confessor and producer of the Beatles on EMI. Where they are concerned, as he says proudly, "I make things possible...
...Seraphim). The recording dates from 1956, a wonderful year to catch Soprano Victoria de los Angeles as the purest of Mimis, Tenor Jussi Bjoerling as the most poetic of Rodolfos, and Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham as an expressive Puccinist. The album was produced by the European firm EMI and originally sold by RCA Victor in the U.S. When EMI severed ties with Victor, the album was dropped from Victor's catalogue, only to be resurrected now with its new trademark of little seraphim wings. Mono only...