Universal Studios vault fire (Chess masters destroyed)

CTL-E-0820 · Event · other · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

(2008-07) The July 2008 UMG warehouse fire that destroyed master recordings including the Chess Records masters.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from PRESERVE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-PRESERVE-001:CTL-PRESERVE-E-079; source research type(s): event. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

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NYT Magazine

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