The EMI Archive Trust was delighted to sit down with the wonderful Malcolm Addey. He was hired in March 1958 as a trainee/assistant engineer and after an unprecedented short three months was promoted and invited to join the renowned “pop” recording team of Peter Bown and Stuart Eltham. By July he had already recorded Cliff… Read more »
David, 71, is chairman of the EMI Music Sound Foundation (an idea he formulated with EMI MSF CEO Janie Orr MBE, as part of EMI’s centenary celebrations in 1997), an independent music education charity helping improve access to music education by providing instruments and bursaries. He also chairs the EMI Archive Trust, which preserves… Read more »
The EMI Archive Trust would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas. This tree’s revolving musical base is from Germany. Items like this were very popular around the beginning of the 20th century. This one is powered by a single spring, which rotates the Christmas tree and powers the two tune musical mechanism. We… Read more »
The World Service -The Documentary Delivering the King’s Speech, 2nd September 2014 Marking the 75th anniversary of King George VI’s declaration of war against Germany, Louise Minchin relates the untold story of how the King’s Speech reached the entire world. Inspired by the discovery of the original pressing of the speech in the EMI Archives… Read more »
EMI has a long history of supporting artists and music in India. The Gramophone and Typewriter, Ltd. engaged agents in India as early as 1900 and soon established their Indian offices by 1901. In 1906 the site for a record pressing factory had been chosen in Sealdah, Calcutta. By 1946 The Gramophone Company of India… Read more »
On July 28, 1914, one month after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife by a Serbian Nationalist, the Austro-Hungarian Empire declares war on Serbia, thus initiating the First World War. By August 4th 1914 Britain declares war on Germany, Austria’s ally. Published at the start of the First World War this popular… Read more »
We sat down with Nigel Bewley (Operations Manager and head sound engineer at the British Library Sound Archive) for our Memories of EMI Campaign. In this short video he shares this memory about his time making field recordings at one of the EMI factories in the early 90s. Nigel Bewley is a specialist sound engineer who worked… Read more »
Hayes Past, Present and Future There will be a special screening from our ‘Memories of EMI’ project, Sunday 22 June 2014, as part of this year’s ‘Calling the Tune Film Festival’ This session also includes a presentation from Hayes students of their projects on the history of Hayes, followed by a screening of ‘At Your Service (1962)’, a… Read more »
In early 1940, Alan Blumlein and his team at the EMI Central Research Labs began work on the technology behind the Capacitance Altimeter. This device works by measuring the differences in charge between a low lying aircraft and the charge at earth’s surface, therefore enabling aircraft and other vehicles to fly at night and in… Read more »
Tony Locantro worked for EMI for 54 years and during that time he worked with the EMI Archive Trust to curate Scott’s Music Box. This double CD compilation album showcases the music taken by Captain Scott on his fateful expedition to the South Pole. Tony was instrumental in choosing the correct pieces of music and artwork… Read more »