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

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EMI

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Europe's first disc recording studio

Queen's drummer Roger Taylor unveiled the plaque.

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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

J. Witty

J. Witty

Student of Trinity College of Music, killed in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces, Music / songs

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Orlando Gibbons

Orlando Gibbons

Composer and keyboard player. Born Oxford. Died Canterbury.

Person, Music / songs

2 memorials
Dire Straits first gig

Dire Straits first gig

The picture shows a rehearsal for the gig, in front of the Cockpit Arts building. We thank Glenda Bogdanovs for permission to use her historic photo.

Event, Music / songs

1 memorial
William Rodney Graham

William Rodney Graham

A Canadian artist and musician who was known professionally as Rodney Graham. He was born on 16 January 1949 in British Columbia, Canada and was educated at the University of British Columbia, Van...

Person, Music / songs, Sculpture, Canada

1 memorial
George Harrison

George Harrison

Musician and songwriter. Born Liverpool.  One of the four Beatles.  Died Los Angeles.

Person, Cinema, Music / songs, Seriously Famous

2 memorials

Previously viewed

Robert Cromie

Robert Cromie

Architect. He designed many cinemas including the Hammersmith Apollo, as well as the Prince of Wales Theatre in London, and the interiors of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane and the Royal Court.

Person, Architecture

1 memorial
Alexis Korner

Alexis Korner

Musician. Born Alexis Andrew Nicholas Koerner in Paris. His family moved to Britain at the outbreak of WW2. He played with various bands and in 1961 formed 'Blues Incorporated' with harmonica playe...

Person, Music / songs, France

1 memorial
John Staples
1 memorial
Pearce

Pearce

SE1, Snowfields

The Metropolitan Tabernacle is still there, on Newington Butts at Elephant and Castle. The biblical quote fails to hide the blatant self...

1 subject commemorated