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Thorn EMI PLC has named Jim Fifield president and chief executive of EMI Music Worldwide, effective Saturday. Fifield is currently president and chief operating officer at EMI Music Worldwide. Bhaskar Menon will remain chairman of EMI Music Worldwide, Capitol-EMI Music Inc. and EMI Music Limited, and will continue as an executive director of the Thorn EMI main board. Fifield, who will be based in New York, joined EMI Music in May, 1988, as president and chief operating officer from CBS Fox Video, where he was president and chief executive.