From Edison to iTunes: A History Of The Record Label - 4. Episode 4

FROM EDISON TO ITUNES: A HISTORY OF THE RECORD LABEL - 4. EPISODE 4 (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 25th April 2017

Paul Morley concludes his personal portrait of the music industry, told through the many iconic and generation-defining record labels that helped mould it.

Paul considers the future of the music industry in the dgital download age and asks whether there's still a place for record labels - with the help of such record label bosses as Lucian Grainge (Universal), Mike Smith (Columbia), Nick Gatfield (EMI), Martin Mills (Beggars), Richard Russell (XL), Geoff Travis (Rough Trade), Alan McGee (Creation), Lawrence Bell (Domino), Jonathan Poneman (Sub Pop), Steve Beckett (Warp), Mark Jones (Wall of Sound) and Seymour Stein (Sire).

First broadcast in 2009.

Burial - Ghost Hardware
T. Rex - Hot Love [Universal Music TV]
Deep Purple - Black Night [EMI]
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax [Telstar]
Pet Shop Boys - Love Etc [Parlophone]
The Ting Tings - Thats Not My Name [Columbia]
Take That - Patience [Polydor]
Louis Armstrong - Potato Head Blues [Living Era]
Etta James - I'd Rather Go Blind [Dino]
Abba - The Winner Takes It All
Robert Johnson - Malted Milk Recording [CBS]
David Bowie - Sound And Vision [EMI]
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean [Sony TV]
Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra
Rainbow - Since You Been Gone [Debutante]
Just Jack - Starz In Their Eyes [Mercury]
Billy Bragg - Between The Wars [Chrysalis]
Take That - Patience [Polydor]
The Ting Tings - Thats Not My Name [Columbia]
Pet Shop Boys - Love Etc [Parlophone]
Forgemasters - Track With No Name [Warp]
The Prodigy - Firestarter [EMI]