[78-L] Universal gets EMI

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Fri Nov 11 15:42:25 PST 2011


On 11/11/2011 6:05 PM, Anthony Pavick wrote:
>>>
>> How does London belong to WEA if it's always been part of English Decca? dl
>>
>>
> Roger Ames who ran London in an independent manner under Polygram took it
> WMG (WEA) when he left for Warners. It was there for quite a while, at
> least as far as pop catalogue went (Fine Young Cannibals, Bananarama et
> al). But I do see it went back to Universal in 2010, but it looks like some
> stuff stayed at WEA. So we are both partially right.

Okay, that was something I didn't know. The Decca name seemed to be applied 
universally (ha ha) in recent years but I haven't been keeping track of pop in 
a long time.

dl



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