The Talking Machine Forum — For All Antique Phonographs & Recordings

This may be old news to some, but I found the story to be shocking. It appears that the great majority of the Decca master tapes were destroyed in the Universal Studios vault fire in 2008. Universal/Vivendi management did a very effective job at the time of concealing the extent of the loss, bit it is nonetheless significant.


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/maga ... dings.html

Very comprehensive report of a cultural tragedy. The unexplainable is the lack of concern with this loss and the means to prevent its reoccurrence with other companies' archives, even after the whole coverup was brought to light.