Coldplay, Pink Floyd and Kylie Minogue to Be Dropped From Label

Coldplay, Pink Floyd and Kylie Minogue are to be dropped by their label.

Troubled British record company EMI is undergoing a takeover by Universal Music Group, and the European Commission ruled today it can go ahead on condition it sells off most of its smaller record labels.

Acts who will now find themselves without a parent label include David Guetta, Tinie Tempah, Gorillaz, Cliff Richard, David Bowie, Tina Turner and Duran Duran, who are all signed to Parlophone. Chrysalis - home to Depeche Mode and Moby - will also have to go, as will Mute, home to the Ramones and Jethro Tull.

One act EMI will be keep are The Beatles, a hugely lucrative band, who still sell millions of albums even though they split in 1970.

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Thom Yorke Influenced Flea

Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea was influenced by touring with Radiohead singer Thom Yorke. The bassist played with the British singer in supergroup Atoms for Peace - which also included punk singer Patti Smith and Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn - and said it really helped broaden his musical horizon.

"It influenced me being around Thom. He's an unbelievably great musician and a beautiful man. He's so pure as an artist. It's less that I would try to copy him and more that just being around someone who channels really powerful energy is beneficial. It's a relationship I will always hope to nurture."

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Mix Tape: Behind the Music Special for DMX, Biopic for N.W.A.

-Glastonbury may be down a U2 performance, but its picked up some Gorillaz. The music festival has recruited the group to help fill the hole left behind due to Bono’s emergency surgery.

-YouTube star Greyson Chance didn’t sign with Interscope Records after all. He’ll now be working with eleveneleven, a record label American Idol judge Ellen DeGeneres created just to sign him.

-Behind the Music will return to VH1 next month. A DMX special will kick it off on June 7. A Christina Aguilera hour will follow on June 13.

-World Trade Center‘s Andrea Berloff is in the middle of penning Straight Outta Compton, a biopic about rap group N.W.A. Ice Cube is one of the project’s producers.

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