Sunday, August 12th, 2007

Terra Firma wins in bid for EMI

Private equity group Terra Firma has succeeded in its bid to buy music
firm EMI - securing just more than the 90% of shareholder approval it
needed.

By the Wednesday deadline, 90.3% of EMI investors had agreed to the
£2.4bn takeover offer by the UK company, headed by buyout specialist Guy
Hands.
Above the 90% level, Terra Firma can forcibly buy […]

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Friday, August 10th, 2007

EMI now on Terra Firma

PRIVATE equity group Terra Firma has won control of British music company EMI, the world’s third-biggest music company whose artists include The Beatles, after securing 90pc of its shares.

Terra Firma’s bid valued EMI at £3.2bn including debt, and followed a lengthy takeover tussle with US music group Warner Music.
The takeover was backed by management at […]

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Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

The Beatles - "Love"

Remix by George and Giles Martin - Capitol Multichannel DVD-A + separate CD
******* MULTICHANNEL DISC OF THE MONTH ********

The Beatles - “Love” - Remix by George and Giles Martin - Capitol Multichannel DVD-A + separate CD (DD & DTS 5.1 also on DVD) 3 79810 2, 78 min. *****:
What a transporting musical experience for […]

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Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

The Beatles suing company for trashing photo negatives

Apple and EMI are suing a cleaning firm who mistakenly threw away the negatives to the photo session for the 1963 Please Please Me album. They are suing for over $1 million after a cleaning lady threw away the photos that were in a bin labeled “Not Rubbish - Do Not Remove.”

http://www.therockradio.com/2007/02/beatles-suing-company-for-trashing.html
The Beatles suing company […]

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