Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


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 […]

Clive’s Book-2

He takes so much credit! Bruce Springsteen? The way he runs around the stage, uses all the space? That’s CLIVE! I don’t expect you to believe that, and I certainly don’t, but I barely knew Ahmet and he loved to tell stories, but he wasn’t the punch line of each, they all didn’t end with […]