I’m upset that Patti Smith got into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Let me make this perfectly clear, the only people who care are those who lived in Manhattan in the seventies, or maybe commuted from one of the other four boroughs to see a show on the rock hard island, the rest […]

And sooner or laterEverybody’s kingdom must end "The King Must Die"Elton John I can’t say that I know Alain Levy.  I’ve met him a couple of times.  Once, smoking cigars at the closed Chasen’s on Grammy night.  Actually, we always seem to meet around Grammy time.  At the charity dinner, at the EMI party.  But […]

Shake-up at the top of EMI By Joshua Chaffin in New York and Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in London Published: January 12 2007 00:37 | Last updated: January 12 2007 00:49 EMI will on Friday announce the dismissal of Alain Levy and David Munns, two of its most senior executives, in a drastic bid to restructure the […]

I just bought sixty pens. Oh, I didn’t WANT sixty pens.  In fact, I only wanted one.  But you can’t buy ONE.  Maybe at the five and dime, the corner store, but they went out of business, along with the stationery store where the proprietor knew every item in his inventory.  Now you go to […]