The time the world’s first record producer nearly burned down the Vatican and ended up changing music history. It was quite the trip ‘FEE EXORBITANT FORBID YOU TO RECORD’ screamed the telegram from head office. No nuance, no shades of grey there. This was as unequivocal as it got. The recipient, Fred Gaisberg, had always... Read more »

Here at the EMI Archive Trust we love returning the spotlight to enormously consequential people in the history of EMI and the music industry who are not so well known any more but absolutely deserve to be so. This time, the very wonderful and amazing Mr Trevor Williams. As will become clear, it really is... Read more »

Malvern October 2024: Talk by Paul Alger – Vice President of Asset and Archive Management for Universal Music, for the City of London Phonograph & Gramophone Society (CLPGS) Annual AGM. This article was first featured in ‘For the Record’ No. 92 Winter Edition 2024, the journal of the CLPGS The article is shared with kind... Read more »