Capitol Records is a major United States-based record label, owned by EMI.

The Capitol Records Tower is one of the most distinctive landmarks in Hollywood, California. The 13-story earthquake resistant tower, designed by Welton Becket, was the world's first circular office building, and is home to several recording studios. The wide curved awnings over windows on each story and the tall spike emerging from the top of the building combine to give it the appearance of a stack of vinyl 45s on a turntable. The rectangular ground floor is a separate structure, joined to the tower after it was completed. It was built in 1956 just north of the intersection of Hollywood and Vine as the consolidated West Coast operations of Capitol Records; it houses the operations of Capitol Records and Capitol Studios, a recording facility that includes an echo chamber engineered by guitarist Les Paul. It would also be known as “The House That Bozo Built” due to the vast amounts of records and merchandise Bozo sold for the company.

The blinking light atop the tower spells out the word "Hollywood" in Morse code. In 1992 it was changed to read "Capitol 50" in honor of the label's fiftieth anniversary. It has since returned to spelling "Hollywood."

In the 1974 disaster blockbuster film "Earthquake," the tower was shown collapsing during a massive tremor. Thirty years later, in an homage to "Earthquake," the tower was again destroyed, this time by a massive tornado, in "The Day After Tomorrow."

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