{"id":1636,"date":"2012-05-08T18:53:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T18:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/05\/08\/queen-manager-applauds-universalemi-swoop\/"},"modified":"2012-05-08T18:53:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T18:53:51","slug":"queen-manager-applauds-universalemi-swoop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2012\/05\/08\/queen-manager-applauds-universalemi-swoop\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen manager applauds Universal\/EMI swoop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/brianmay.com\/queen\/queennews\/newspix\/09\/queen(_4heads_fm_hands_500.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"154\" height=\"137\" \/><br \/>Queen manager Jim Beach is looking forward to Universal\u2019s potential acquisition of EMI Music, anticipating a time when the record label will \u201cagain be owned by a music company\u201d.  <!--more-->  <br \/>In a letter to The Times &#8211; published on Saturday, May 5 &#8211; Beach remembered EMI Records under private equity and how he felt it was to the detriment of the bands housed there at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s music business is very different to that of 40 years ago, when the band I represent, Queen, began its career with EMI Records,\u201d he said. \u201cThen the company was a hugely influential creative force in the UK and overseas. It gave us extraordinary music across virtually every genre, and its artists shaped the tastes of more than one generation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the latter-day EMI Records under private equity proved to be a very different place,\u201d he added. \u201cInvestment was slashed to the detriment of the artists, Queen among them, and we were not alone in jumping ship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to when EMI Records will again be owned by a music company as there are still great artists and executives there who need more creative people at the top,\u201d Beach concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Contrastingly, legendary producer Sir George Martin labelled the proposed break-up of EMI as &#8216;the worst thing music has ever faced&#8217; at the end of last month. <\/p>\n<p>Source: Music Week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queen manager Jim Beach is looking forward to Universal\u2019s potential acquisition of EMI Music, anticipating&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}