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Music Group EMI in Dire Straits

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Struggling music group EMI faces being taken over by its bankers after failing to clinch a deal to sell the North American distribution rights for its artists to Universal Music Group or Sony Music.

EMI, which has the Beatles, Coldplay, Lily Allen and Pink Floyd on its books, had hoped to raise around 200 million pounds ($304 million) by offering its rivals a five- year licensing contract.

A source close to both sets of talks, who requested anonymity because the discussions were private, said Thursday that they fell apart after a failure to agree on price.

That leaves EMI, owned by private equity group Terra Firma Capital Partners Ltd., battling to raise 120 million pounds by mid-June to meet its commitments on loans from U.S. bank Citigroup.

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