Radiohead are set to release a best of on June 2, says the NME.
The two CD set is being released by their ex-record company EMI - run by Musictoob’s good friend, venture capitalist Guy Hands.
(Radiohead put their last album out via X L Records.
Here’s the tracklisting:
CD1:
‘Just’
‘Paranoid Android’
‘Karma Police’
‘Creep’
‘No Surprises’
‘High And Dry’
‘My Iron Lung’
‘There There’
‘Lucky’
‘Fake Plastic [...]

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Guy Hands is not doing his best to ingratiate himself at EMI. According to the Times Business Digest, he sent a letter to all employees last week telling them that their jobs are officially under scrutiny.
Meanwhile, a source for the Independent reveals that the Terra Firma money men are causing ‘much hilarity’ amongst EMI staff:
Our [...]

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Last year Guy Hands suggested that membership of trade body IFPI cost EMI and other labels $250m a year, and insisted that it cut its costs or EMI were out. Now it looks like Hands has won the battle. According to Reuters:
A spokesman for the IFPI, which also looks to safeguard the rights [...]

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After characterizing A&R men as lazy ne’erdowells who feast on lobster tails and stay in bed till three, venture capitalist fatcat Guy Hands has made his first bold move as EMI boss. Release lots of old records! Who needs A&R men anyway?

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EMI owner Guy Hands’s recent comments about taking away the power of the A&R men and giving it to the suits has ruffled feathers both inside and outside the company. His caricature of the typical A&R man as “someone who gets up late in the day, listens to lots of music, goes to clubs, spends [...]

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