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The Music Biz: Corporate Rock

on BBC Two England

Last in the series of six programmes telling the human stories behind the multinational face of the pop music industry.

The music industry has changed. Since the sale of CBS Records to Sony (overseen by the legendary Walter Yetnikoff) and the sale of Virgin Records, the only major independent label left by the early 1990s, to EMI following Richard Branson's cash flow problems, the music business has gone global, carved up by a handful of multinational giants. But how can this $35 billion industry protect its corporate "assets" from the dangerous effects of their own traditional lifestyle - sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll - which brought so many star-studded careers of the 1960s to a premature end?
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Producer:
Gina Newson
Producer:
Jeremy Newson

BBC Two England

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