Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Clive’s Book-Final?

No one has ever finished this book, not unless they were paid to do so, because the last two thirds is UNREADABLE! Think I’m on a vendetta? Then peruse the review in yesterday’s “New York Times”: Arista Cat How come the message didn’t get out? How come no one has said reading this book is […]

Justin Timberlake

Talk about overexposed. Are we still living in 2000, when it was all about the first week and most people still had not discovered Napster? Yup, that’s when JT was at his peak. You want to know the big arts story this week? The “Veronica Mars” Kickstarter project. They’ve raised in excess of three million […]

Then/Now

THEN People had car trouble. NOW If someone tells you they’re not coming because their car won’t start, you don’t believe them. THEN Your computer crashed, you feared the Blue Screen Of Death. NOW Your computer goes months without ever crashing, and you barely turn it on anyway, only for work, because you’re addicted to […]

Leiweke Out

There’s only one owner here. That’s what Rupert Murdoch told Barry Diller after Barry did the impossible, create a fourth television network. Barry believed he earned ownership. But Rupert felt otherwise. You think you want a job, you think you want to sell out, but if you’re not in charge of your life someone else […]