Group    From /3/1931  To 2012

EMI

Categories: Music / songs

Music record label. Electric and Musical Industries Ltd was formed in London in March 1931 by the merger of the Columbia Graphophone Company and the Gramophone Company. See there for EMI's beginnings. Broken up in 2012.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
EMI

Commemorated ati

Europe's first disc recording studio

Queen's drummer Roger Taylor unveiled the plaque.

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This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
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Sir Edward Elgar - Abbey Road Studios

Sir Edward Elgar, composer, 1857 - 1934, opened and recorded in these studios...

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Other Subjects

Harry Beckett

Harry Beckett

Harold Winston "Harry" Beckett. Trumpeter and flugelhorn player. Born Barbados. Resident in the UK from 1954.

Person, Music / songs, Caribbean Islands

1 memorial
Sir Charles Santley

Sir Charles Santley

Opera singer.  Born Liverpool. Died at home, where the plaque now is.

Person, Music / songs

1 memorial
Camden Roundhouse

Camden Roundhouse

Built to service trains using Euston, London's first railway terminus. It became obsolete by 1855 when locomotives outgrew its turntable. It then became a warehouse for Gilbey's Gin. In the 1960s t...

Building, Music / songs, Theatre, Transport

1 memorial
Sir Geraint Evans

Sir Geraint Evans

Opera singer. Born Geraint LLewellyn Evans in Cilfynydd, Wales. He took singing lessons in Cardiff before serving in the RAF in WW2. Later he studied in Geneva and in London at the Guildhall School...

Person, Music / songs, Wales

1 memorial
Roy Castle OBE

Roy Castle OBE

All round entertainer. Born Yorkshire.  Died at home at Gerrards Cross of lung cancer, although he was not a smoker.  Before his death he campaigned for more research into cancer and the campaign c...

Person, Dance, Humour, Music / songs, TV & Radio

1 memorial