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.

By Dr. Peter Martland, this article was first featured in ‘For the Record’ No.92 Winter Edition 2024, the journal of the CLPGS.

With thanks to:

Dr. Peter Martland is a historian at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.  He is a specialist in the history of the music industry, and in British and American intelligence history. 

City Of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society  is a British society and registered charity dedicated to the research in all aspects of early recorded sound. Founded in 1919, the CLPGS is likely to be the oldest society of its type in the world.

Universal Music Group continues to generously support The EMI Archive Trust an independent registered UK charity.