The record label was reeling in 1970: its cash cow, The Beatles, had disbanded, and it lost $8 million that year. Parent company EMI put Menon in charge the next year and he turned it all around: in 1973 Capitol released Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, and the label spent the decade issuing hit after hit by Tina Turner, Linda Ronstadt, Helen Reddy, Bob Seger, Grand Funk Railroad, and others. Menon went on to run EMI’s enormous worldwide music operations. – The New York Times
