Legendary concert promoter Jim Koplik is the president of Connecticut and the Upstate New York Region for Live Nation. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jim-koplik/id1316200737?i=1000771141122 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/ef619747-2be9-4dfa-97e5-dd32fe513567/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-jim-koplik

We’ve seen this movie before. Back in the nineties, with Bob Morgado and the Warner Music Group. A man with no expertise in music single-handedly destroyed the company. But it was even worse, he ultimately fired his co-conspirator Doug Morris, who went on with Edgar Bronfman, Jr.’s money to create Universal Music, which still dominates […]

It was hard getting into another book after “London Falling.” We’re searching for excellence in a world of me-too. And even though we all use the same language, the same alphabet, certain artists rise above. Then again, how many people creating deserve the term “artist”? That’s one thing that struck me in “So Old, So […]

ROGER DALTREY “Say It Ain’t So Joe” Daltrey’s debut was famous for its Leo Sayer songs (co-written with David Courtney), before Leo was a solo act, never mind switching gears to being a popster with Richard Perry. It opens jauntily with “One Man Band,” but the highlight from that initial solo LP is “Giving It […]