Universal Music's Lucian Grainge vows transparency in internal memo. Attorney demands 'complete inventory of all master recordings ... destroyed in the fire.'
Lucian Grainge, chairman and CEO of the world's largest music company, Universal Music Group, photographed in 2014 in his office in Santa Monica.
published last week, a report that alleged widespread destruction of a vast number of original master recordings by artists including Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Elton John, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Nirvana, Snoop Dogg and an untold number of others.
On Tuesday, King, of King, Holmes, Paterno & Soriano, and Ed McPherson of McPherson LLP also jointly sent a letter to Grainge, a copy of which was obtained by The Times, requesting his firm be provided “a complete inventory of all master recordings, including finished sound recordings as well as outtakes, that were destroyed in the fire.
It continued, “All of us came into this business for one reason: a love of music. Our artists and songwriters count on us to be the stewards of their art – today and for the future.
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