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EMI and Capitol Records boss Bhaskar Menon has died aged 86

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The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie and more, has died aged 86.Menon died at his home in Beverly Hills, California on Thursday (March 4).

A cause of death has not yet been revealed.The founding chairman of EMI Music Worldwide who worked at the label for 34 years, Menon also ran Capitol Records for a time.Recruited to EMI in 1956 directly after graduating from Oxford University, Menon went on to join the label’s Indian division, Gramophone Company of India, in 1957, before eventually being named chairman in 1969.That same year, he was hired as the head of EMI International, before taking over at Capitol in 1971.Tributes to Menon, who is widely credited with breaking Pink Floyd in the US, was Universal Music Group chairman Lucian.

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