Is EMI's Guy Hands at the helm of sinking ship?

When Guy Hands took charge of EMI in 2008, he attributed the label's problems to the fact that "the power and the decision has sat with the A&R man . . . What we are doing is taking the power away from the A&R guys and putting it with the suits." Two years on, how is his suit shake-up working out? Rumours of an imminent takeover from Warner Music in the US continue in the face of huge debts, while last week EMI lost out to Pink Floyd in a high court battle over digital sales of tracks from The D...

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