From Edison to iTunes: A History of the Record Label

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Critic, writer and former label boss Paul Morley considers the future for record labels.

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From Edison to iTunes: A History of the Record Label: Episode 4

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Paul Morley considers the future for record labels in the digital download world.

Critic, writer and former label boss Paul Morley considers the future for record labels - both independent and major - in the less certain digital download world.

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.

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