Universal Music Group is relaunching EMI Records, the iconic British record label which UMG acquired for $1.9 billion in 2012.
As part of the relaunch, UMG's Virgin EMI is renamed EMI Records, effective immediately. The Virgin Records imprint will continue under the new EMI Records banner.
At the helm is newly-appointed EMI president Rebecca Allen, a 20-year UMG veteran and former Billboard Women In Music honoree.
Closely associated with the British pop movement of the 1960s, EMI's star-studded roster in the UK in the '60s and '70s included The Beatles, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross and the Supremes, the Jackson Five, The Temptations and Smokey Robinson.
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