Too bad he missed his crowning achievement. Which is the endless obituaries in today’s news media trumpeting him and his efforts. This is what Clive Davis wanted. Acknowledgement and immortality. And to achieve that, he was on an endless quest of personal myth-making. I’m not saying the guy was without talent. He could certainly pick […]

I’m not a Marshall McLuhan maven, but one thing is for sure, the internet has changed the message, and too many refuse to accept this. It crosses all art forms, from books to movies, but here I’m going to focus on music. It starts off with short. No one is going to dedicate a lot […]

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Universal and Warner are public companies. Sony is too, but it’s part of a larger enterprise and it’s hard to parse out the financial details, and stockholders judge the overall performance of the conglomerate, not just the music division, but… Wall Street evaluates Universal and Sony and what they see is a huge expenditure on […]