2008 vault fire destroyed 500,000 master recordings by some of music's biggest artists, NYT reports
Master recordings by artists spanning decades and genres, including Aretha Franklin, Elton John and Nirvana, were reportedly destroyed in 2008 when a fire ripped through the Universal Studios backlot — though their doomed fate has been kept under wraps until now.
But according to a new investigation by The New York Times Magazine, Universal Music Group’s sound-recordings library, which held thousands of master copies of various songs, was also largely destroyed by the fire. More modern masters were also lost as well, by everyone from Eric Clapton and Elton John, to the Eagles, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Janet Jackson, Nirvana and Tupac Shakur.
“While there are constraints preventing us from publicly addressing some of the details of the fire that occurred … more than a decade ago, the incident – while deeply unfortunate – never affected the availability of the commercially released music nor impacted artists’ compensation,” the statement read.
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