Used to be a number one record.  You wanted that ceremony, with all the label geeks and your manager, where you were presented gold and platinum plaques, which you paid for, demonstrating your success.  But do you really want to be Lady GaGa?  Beholden to Perez Hilton?  A creature of the media?  Or would you […]

I don’t know what’s happening with that Coldplay lawsuit, especially now that Cat Stevens has weighed in, but I’ve always thought Joe Satriani has had better chops than material.  That’s the plight of too many of these eighties guitar superstars, they had technique, they spent 10,000 hours practicing in their bedrooms, they just neglected to […]

"The last time the artists united was when they all said they wanted their MTV." Andy Gould Last week, at the close of Musexpo, there was a dinner at the Gordon Ramsay restaurant in the London Hotel.  I ended up sitting with Ron Spaulding, head of Fontana distribution, Jason Flom, A&R man for the ages, […]

How bad do you want it?How bad do you want it?How bad do you want it?Not bad enough "How Bad Do You Want It?"Don Henley Craig Kallman asked me if Malcolm Gladwell was a subscriber. I told him I didn’t know, there was almost no way to tell.  The more famous the person, the more […]