{"id":319,"date":"2010-03-29T02:29:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T06:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=319"},"modified":"2010-03-29T02:29:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T06:29:32","slug":"emiciti-financial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"EMI\/Citi Financial &#038; Arcadia finally on DVD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that EMI is trying to work something out with the other labels to keep it&#8217;s assets from being taken over by Citi Financial. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/business.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/business\/industry_sectors\/media\/article7069841.ece\" target=\"_blank\">Times Online<\/a> reports that EMI has approached Universal, Sony and Warner and that Warner is preparing a bid for some of <a href=\"http:\/\/business.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/business\/industry_sectors\/media\/article7061024.ece\" target=\"_blank\">EMI&#8217;s assets with KKR<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>All is not well at EMI. <\/p>\n<p>Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones and Radiohead have all left the label since the company&#8217;s 2007 takeover by private equity group Terra Firma and they have recently been brought into court by members of Pink Floyd, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/arts_and_entertainment\/music\/article7058412.ece\" target\"_blank\">this Times Online article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, at least there is some good news for fans of Duran Duran and Arcadia in Canada. We will be getting the special re-releases of their CDs via EMI Music Canada in April, which will include bonus remixes and DVDs that include the music videos for these albums.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m particularly interested in the reissue of Arcadia&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/gp\/product\/B002YT03I4?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=musicbymailca-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=15121&#038;creative=390961&#038;creativeASIN=B002YT03I4\" target=\"_blank\">So Red The Rose<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.ca\/e\/ir?t=musicbymailca-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=15&#038;a=B002YT03I4\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, whose music videos I wanted on DVD for decades. But the bonus material and videos on Duran Duran&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/gp\/product\/B00362DRQS?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=musicbymailca-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=15121&#038;creative=390961&#038;creativeASIN=B00362DRQS\">Seven And The Ragged Tiger<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.ca\/e\/ir?t=musicbymailca-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=15&#038;a=B00362DRQS\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> reissue are also tempting.<\/p>\n<p>Now if only EMI could release Kate Bush&#8217;s &#8220;The Whole Story&#8221; on DVD&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that EMI is trying to work something out with the other labels to keep it&#8217;s assets from being taken over by Citi Financial. Times Online reports that EMI has approached Universal, Sony and Warner and that Warner is preparing a bid for some of EMI&#8217;s assets with KKR. All is not well at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,8],"tags":[78,213,327,330,347,794,795,927],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}