HMV is a music and entertainment retailer, founded in the United Kingdom in 1921. As of February 2024, it is currently operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Japan and Belgium, as well as having concessions at Toys "R" Us locations in Canada.
The HMV Shop at Trinity Walk in Wakefield
A record featuring the "His Master's Voice" title and Nipper
HMV's former flagship branch at 150–154 Oxford Street, London. It was later converted into a Sports Direct shop in 2015.
A large HMV branch in Leeds incorporating an Orange shop
Francis James Barraud was an English painter. He is best known for his work His Master's Voice, one of the most famous commercial logos in the world, having inspired a music industry trademark used by corporations including EMI, HMV, RCA Victor and JVC. The image, which depicts a dog named Nipper, ear cocked as he listens to a wind-up disc gramophone helped popularize the nascent field of sound recording and brought Barraud worldwide fame. He subsequently established himself as an artist for corporate clients, spending the rest of his career producing at least two dozen copies of the painting which made his name.
1922 photograph of Barraud with one of many copies of His Master's Voice
The original painting with the Edison Bell phonograph
Francis Barraud's blue plaque at 126 Piccadilly
3D model of His Masters Voice at the Musee des Ondes Emile Berliner
