Radiohead: 'We left EMI because they wouldn't give us what we wanted'
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In an interview to be published in next week’s Observer Music Monthly, Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien reveals that new ownership was the reason for their split with former label EMI.
Rather than an ideological statement, as was widely speculated, their decision to strike out on their own for recent album In Rainbows was down to a change in personnel.
"EMI is in a state of flux,” explained O’Brien. “It's been taken over by somebody who's never owned a record company before, Guy Hands and Terra Firma, and they don't realise what they're dealing with.
"It was really sad to leave all the people. But he wouldn't give us what we wanted. He didn't know what to offer us. Terra Firma doesn't understand the music industry."
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Radiohead
EMI
= Shit
Seriously...
He's just made up those names.
No-one is called Guy Hands or Terra Firma.
Terra Firma is the company
that took them over...
as for Guy Hands, well...
I stand corrected
But, Guy Hands...
.
slow news day, eh?
fake rabbit
real snake?
he owns a group of hotels,
called the 'hand picked hotels'.
wit.
according to wikipedia...
'In a Ravenscroft production of Macbeth in 1970, he [Guy Hands] played the part of Lady Macbeth opposite Christopher Newbury as Macbeth'
random.
Interesting
The people I know who work for EMI have pretty much all to a man(woman) said that things have significantly improved since the takeover.
The artists I know who are signed to EMI are a lot less enthusiastic somehow...
just thought I'd throw that in
ah
When an EMI employee says "things are better" what she/he meant to say is that they've just benn given a pay rise, a new computer, and a bean bag.
It rather begs the question as to what exactly it was
that Radiohead wanted and EMI in turn refused to supply them with.
My money is on a flotilla of solid platinum robotic swans to swim in the moat that surrounds Yorke Towers.
The moat is filled with the tears of those who bought their first three albums and eagerly await the return of the melody.
no, it is filled with wee
the wee that spills excitedly down the leg into Glasto's mud, during their sets there, cos we is all too happy to traipse off to the lavs
it is a bit stinky but you get used to it and it keeps the salesmen away from
...
Is that because Robbie Williams hasn't released an album this year?
One wonders
what they were asking for. Also wonder who their man in EMI was, in their last stages. Keith Wozencroft, who signed and developed them, is now way up amongst the directors, and one wonders whether this means they would have had to deal with other people who maybe didn't 'get' them.
radiohead emi debate
i'm sure all they wanted was a little more artistic freedom to stretch there audio muscles even more.
they're not the types to turn round and say they want a bigger tourbus or an organic rider..although i'm sure they have one.
dean.
Don't Know
but the Young Knives last single was called that.
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