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It was the biggest disaster in the history of the music business — and almost nobody knew. This is the story of the 2008 Universal fire.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/magazine/universal-fire-master-recordings.html
Among the losses were the entire AVI Records catalog, all of Decca's masters from the 1930s to the 1950s, most of the original Chess masters which included artists such as Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, as well as most of John Coltrane's master tapes from his later career on Impulse! Records. On Twitter, Rosen stated that the Coltrane masters were among the most checked-out Impulse items in the vault, and a source had told him that the masters for A Love Supreme were likely elsewhere during the fire.On June 25, Rosen wrote a follow-up article, listing at least 700 additional artists named in internal UMG documents as possibly affected. Rosen wrote that it was impossible to determine which recordings had been destroyed, or how much of an artist's discography had been affected. For example, Rosen said it was difficult to confirm whether the Neil Young recordings listed in the documents were the original master tapes of the albums he recorded for Geffen Records in the 1980s or session outtakes from those records. Rosen tweeted that the documents also listed several Broadway cast recordings among the tapes destroyed.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Universal_fire#2019_New_York_Times_report
List of artists affectedhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Universal_fire#List_of_artists_affected