Thousands of recordings by great artists lost in fire

The 2008 fire at Universal Studios in Hollywood destroyed so much more than the company first reported. According to The New York Times Magazine, the fire also tore through an archive housing treasured audio recordings, amounting to what the piece described as “the biggest disaster in the history of the music business.”

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/us/master-recordings-universal-fire.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&fbclid=IwAR1vMCzAhRZlrw8xc98sTSgEehIRyh4dPJIg_diUK6XXfkc_-uGpqdQyYhM