The pressure is too much for EMI CEO Elio Sceti. He and his right hand man Ernesto are out, leaving the management in chaos. Another huge band has walked and the debt mountain is piling up. Guy Hands ends up in court for the battle of his life, and the writing is on the wall for this once great music company.

 

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

 

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The pressure is too much for EMI CEO Elio Sceti. He and his right hand man Ernesto are out, leaving the management in chaos. Another huge band has walked and the debt mountain is piling up. Guy Hands ends up in court for the battle of his life, and the writing is on the wall for this once great music company.
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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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Bloomberg, CNN, BBC News 2010, BBC Breakfast 2010, BBC News 2012, BBC News 2023

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

Yet another huge band leaves EMI and the CEO walks. Guy ends up in court in a desperate battle for billions.

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