Record label EMI is riding high on decades of success from the Beatles and Pink Floyd, to Pet Shop Boys, Blur and Coldplay, the company can seemingly do no wrong. 

 

The company grows fat on the bottomless profits, but the arrival of the internet brings a legion of online pirates who want to download everything for free. The EMI party is over, as huge artists start to jump ship. Just as the company is about to go under, a financial hotshot rides over the hill to save the day. What could possibly go wrong? Featuring interviews with Neil Tennant, Tony Wadsworth and Caryn Tomlinson.

 

Host: Chris Atkins
Producer; Max Bower

Assistant Producer: Mohamed Ahmed

Editor: Jo Wheeler 

Researcher: Zeyana Yussuf

Additional production and story development: Sonny Marr

Sound design and Mix by Daniel Kempson. 

Original music by Vincent Watts

Production Managers: Cheree Houston, Charlotte Wolf, Sarah Tobin

Executive Producers: Ian Neil, Max O’Brien & Craig Strachan

Produced by Novel in Association with Cart Before Horse & BBC Studios

 

Thames TV 1997, KERA/PBS 1991, BBC Newsnight 1983, BBC Reel Stories, BRITS 95, BBC Newsnight 1998, ITN 2004, BBC News 2007

Record label EMI is riding high on decades of success from the Beatles and Pink Floyd, to Pet Shop Boys, Blur and Coldplay, the company can seemingly do no wrong.&nbsp;
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The company grows fat on the bottomless profits, but the arrival of the internet brings a legion of online pirates who want to download everything for free. The EMI party is over, as huge artists start to jump ship. Just as the company is about to go under, a financial hotshot rides over the hill to save the day. What could possibly go wrong? Featuring interviews with Neil Tennant, Tony Wadsworth and Caryn Tomlinson.
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Host: Chris Atkins Producer; Max Bower
Assistant Producer: Mohamed Ahmed
Editor: Jo Wheeler&nbsp;
Researcher: Zeyana Yussuf
Additional production and story development: Sonny Marr
Sound design and Mix by Daniel Kempson.&nbsp;
Original music by Vincent Watts
Production Managers: Cheree Houston, Charlotte Wolf, Sarah Tobin
Executive Producers: Ian Neil, Max O&rsquo;Brien &amp; Craig Strachan
Produced by Novel in Association with Cart Before Horse &amp; BBC Studios
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Thames TV 1997, KERA/PBS 1991, BBC Newsnight 1983, BBC Reel Stories, BRITS 95, BBC Newsnight 1998, ITN 2004, BBC News 2007

EMI was once home to some of the biggest names in pop, the crown jewels of British music from the Beatles, Pink Floyd and Queen, to Coldplay, Kate Bush and Radiohead, and surfing the wave of Brit Pop in the 1990s.

As a new millennium dawns, internet piracy and file sharing capsize the entire record industry. EMI is sold to a city Mogul named Guy Hands. Better known for turning around German motorway toilets than running a record label, his arrival triggers an all out war between the forces of money and art, as the one of London’s feistiest financiers struggles to save Britain’s coolest company.

Music, Money and Mayhem is a Novel production for BBC Studios, the BBC’s commercial subsidiary

EMI was once home to some of the biggest names in pop, the crown jewels of British music from the Beatles, Pink Floyd and Queen, to Coldplay, Kate Bush and Radiohead, and surfing the wave of Brit Pop in the 1990s.
As a new millennium dawns, internet piracy and file sharing capsize the entire record industry. EMI is sold to a city Mogul named Guy Hands. Better known for turning around German motorway toilets than running a record label, his arrival triggers an all out war between the forces of money and art, as the one of London&rsquo;s feistiest financiers struggles to save Britain&rsquo;s coolest company.
Music, Money and Mayhem is a Novel production for BBC Studios, the BBC&rsquo;s commercial subsidiary

Music, Money & Mayhem

Record company EMI is riding high on success. When the internet decimates the company can anyone save it?