MO OSTIN: My name is Marvin Heiman and I was Curtis Mayfield’s partner and Manager for 30 years until Curtis died. We owned Curtom Records and in late 1974 I met with Mo Ostin at Warners Bros., Ahmet Ertegun at Atlantic Records, Capitol Records to decide where we wanted to go with Curtom since our […]

Trailer: https://bit.ly/3BWetXc 1 Did we need another look at Woodstock ’99? Not really, last year’s HBO movie was sufficient. I imagine some young people might watch this Netflix series for the trainwreck value, to get a peek at what once was, as for older people, aware when the festival took place… I recommend it only […]

If I say anything negative I’ll instantly become a pariah, I’ll be inundated with hate on social media and… “How can there be 24 writers on a song? Diane Warren tweeted this about a Beyoncé track four days ago. And was instantly labeled a racist. It was said she didn’t understand African-American culture, one of […]

Mo, Lenny, and Russ, along with the WB staff were truly responsible for the early success of Prince. But Mo was at the helm. When I told them that we wanted three albums firm when we signed him, Mo gave the green light – no other label would have done that. When I told them […]