→ April 28, 2010
If, like I, you have been reading articles under headlines such as ‘Deadline day looms for ailing EMI’ or ‘EMI facing crisis’ you could be forgiven for assuming that EMI was in fact an acronym for England’s Music Industry as a whole, rather than the forlorn single enterprise it is. Consensus amongst analysts of the [...]
→ April 25, 2010
Protest songs have been on the wain for ages – but it seems more and more politicians are trying to court pop stars to support political parties. Lily Allen claims in today’s Sunday Times that both the Tories and Labour have asked her to attend their conferences. The move from the Conservatives is especially strange [...]
→ April 25, 2010
In a recent folk on folk attack Joni Mitchell had a snipe at Bob Dylan. In an interview with the LA Times she said: Bob is not authentic at all. He’s a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I. [...]
→ April 25, 2010
Simon Cowell has made The Times Rich List today, adding almost £50 million to his fortune over the last year; but he only came in at number 11. Here’s the top ten music millionaires: Edgar Bronfman (£1,640m) Clive Calder (£1,300m) Lord Lloyd-Webber (£700m) Sir Cameron Mackintosh (£635m) Sir Paul McCartney (£475m) Simon Fuller (£350m) Sir [...]
