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Deconstructing Pop Culture: Capitol’s Distributed Labels (and the Economics of P&D Deals)

MuseWire COLUMN: By 1984 I had become gravely concerned (of course along with other key executives) about the profitability of Capitol-EMI’s U.S. labels. I met with Bhaskar Menon, then Chairman of EMI Music, and told him we needed to re-start a distributed labels program. The concept of distributed labels, of course, was not new; indeed, […]

Capitol Records under Bhaskar Menon

David Kronemyer

COLUMN: In April 1971 Joseph Lockwood (then chairman of EMI) fired Stanley Gortikov as president of Capitol Industries and Sal Iannucci as president of Capitol Records. As Lockwood expressed in EMI's 1971 annual report, there was â€œevidence of ineffective management and lack of strong cost controls. â€¦ For some years the company had enjoyed a […]