McCartney Says Goodbye to E.M.I., Hello to Concord
Three years ago, Paul McCartney was one of the most outspoken of the disgruntled acts at E.M.I., the record label that had been his home since the earliest days of the Beatles, The New York Times’s Ben Sisario writes.He complained in an interview with The Times of London that he and other artists at the label, which had recently been bought by the British private equity firm Terra Firma, were treated as “part of the furniture.” He signed a deal with the Concord Music Group, an independent label in California, for his new releases.Now, in another blow to E.M.I., Mr. McCartney has pulled his full catalog of post-Beatles albums, signing a new deal with Concord for worldwide distribution of the catalog, Concord said Tuesday.
- McCartney Says Goodbye to E.M.I., Hello to Concord