History for Creator/EMI

In the late 1960s and into TheSeventies, EMI sought to expand, establishing new record labels like Creator/HarvestRecords (an imprint dedicated to ProgressiveRock and other "hippie" genres) and acquiring existing ones, for instance Creator/UnitedArtistsRecords and the latter label's jazz subsidiary Blue Note. EMI would change UA's name back to Creator/LibertyRecords, since the label was no longer associated with [[Creator/UnitedArtists the film studio]]. In 1978, it formed a second major US label, Creator/EMIAmericaRecords. In 1979, it merged with Thorn Electrical Industries to form Thorn EMI. Their film business went from highs to lows -- hits like ''Film/TheDeerHunter'', ''Film/{{Convoy}}'', and ''Film/DeathOnTheNile'', and bombs like the 1980 remake of ''Film/TheJazzSinger'', ''Honky Tonk Freeway'' and ''Film/CantStopTheMusic''. The last one was a film starring Music/TheVillagePeople, released during the [[DiscoSucks height of the anti-disco backlash]]. This, along with bombs like ''Film/RaiseTheTitanic'' and ''The Legend of the Lone Ranger'', mean that EMI's new American joint-venture with ITC, Associated Film Distribution, was dead in the water (resulting in AFD's remaining backlog being sold to Creator/{{Universal}}). This caused them to wind down their film operation, before selling it all to Creator/TheCannonGroup in 1986 (including their half-interest in Thorn EMI Video, a joint-venture [[UsefulNotes/HomeVideoDistributors home video label]] with Creator/{{HBO}}). The library's gone from owner to owner over the years and currently rests with [=StudioCanal=] (itself a sister company of EMI through Creator/{{Vivendi}}).

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In the late 1960s and into TheSeventies, EMI sought to expand, establishing new record labels like Creator/HarvestRecords (an imprint dedicated to ProgressiveRock and other "hippie" genres) and acquiring existing ones, for instance Creator/UnitedArtistsRecords and the latter label's jazz subsidiary Blue Note. EMI would change UA's name back to Creator/LibertyRecords, since the label was no longer associated with [[Creator/UnitedArtists the film studio]]. In 1978, it formed a second major US label, Creator/EMIAmericaRecords. In 1979, it merged with Thorn Electrical Industries to form Thorn EMI. Their film business went from highs to lows -- hits like ''Film/TheDeerHunter'', ''Film/{{Convoy}}'', and ~~''Film/DeathOnTheNile'',~~ ''Film/{{Death on the Nile|1978}}'', and bombs like the 1980 remake of ''Film/TheJazzSinger'', ''Honky Tonk Freeway'' and ''Film/CantStopTheMusic''. The last one was a film starring Music/TheVillagePeople, released during the [[DiscoSucks height of the anti-disco backlash]]. This, along with bombs like ''Film/RaiseTheTitanic'' and ''The Legend of the Lone Ranger'', mean that EMI's new American joint-venture with ITC, Associated Film Distribution, was dead in the water (resulting in AFD's remaining backlog being sold to Creator/{{Universal}}). This caused them to wind down their film operation, before selling it all to Creator/TheCannonGroup in 1986 (including their half-interest in Thorn EMI Video, a joint-venture [[UsefulNotes/HomeVideoDistributors home video label]] with Creator/{{HBO}}). The library's gone from owner to owner over the years and currently rests with [=StudioCanal=] (itself a sister company of EMI through Creator/{{Vivendi}}).

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