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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Sir Charles MacKerras

Sir Charles MacKerras

Conductor and musicologist.  Born Schenectady, New York, but when he was three the family move to Australia where he was brought up.  An authority on the operas of Janacek and Mozart, and the comic...

Person, Music / songs, Australia, USA

1 memorial
Stanley Lupino

Stanley Lupino

Actor, dancer and singer. Born as Stanley Richard Lupino Hook, he was the father of actor and director Ida Lupino. He made his first stage appearance at the age of six and subsequently performed in...

Person, Cinema, Dance, Music / songs, Theatre, USA

1 memorial
Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix

Guitarist and songwriter.  Born Washington, USA. View from the Mirror has done a wonderful job plotting Hendrix's London, with lots of pictures including ones we had not seen before taken on the da...

Person, Music / songs, Seriously Famous, USA

3 memorials
Reg Rigden

Reg Rigden

Cornet player. He was part of George Webb's Dixielanders jazz band. In later years he was curator of the Plumstead Museum.

Person, Music / songs

1 memorial
Sir Charles Stanford

Sir Charles Stanford

Composer, music teacher, and conductor. Born Dublin as Charles Villiers Stanford. Appointed Professor of Composition at the Royal College of Music in 1883, a position he held for the rest of his li...

Person, Music / songs, Ireland

1 memorial

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PP - 3H - Rabbeth

PP - 3H - Rabbeth

EC1, Edward Street

This garden acquired its name due to its popularity as a lunchtime garden with workers from the nearby General Post Office (long gone). ...

2 subjects commemorated, 2 creators
PP - 4I - Benning

PP - 4I - Benning

EC1, Edward Street

A compositor arranged type ready for printing, by manually putting individual metal letters into the required sequence.

1 subject commemorated, 2 creators
Anti-Corn-Law League

Anti-Corn-Law League

Founded in Manchester by Richard Cobden with the objective of having the Corn Laws abolished.  This achieved, the League was dissolved. The Corn Laws imposed a high import tax on foreign grain, th...

Group, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Rev. D. C. Delafosse,  MA

Rev. D. C. Delafosse, MA

Vicar of All Saints Church in 1841. Andrew Behan has researched this man: The Reverend Daniel Charles Delafosse was born on 3 June 1784 in Richmond, Surrey, the eldest son of the the Reverend Robe...

Person, Religion

1 memorial
Henry Mayers Hyndman

Henry Mayers Hyndman

Socialist leader. Founded the Social Democratic Federation in 1884. Born 7 Hyde Park Square. Died 13 Well Walk, Hampstead.

Person, Politics & Administration

2 memorials