1 It was an album for everybody. That doesn’t happen too often, but when it does, the music business takes a giant leap forward, everybody pays attention, everybody listens, music is talked about, it drives the culture. Last example? Adele. Her album “21” sold ten times, literally TEN TIMES as much as everything else in […]

Shamrock Holdings has nothing to worry about, their investment is safe. I had a long conversation with Steven Wilson, the famous remixer, known for his redos of everyone from King Crimson to Jethro Tull to Chicago to Yes. And the first thing he said is the remixes were for the FANS! And you can’t change […]

Never was so much spent on so little. You rise to the occasion. Getting the gig is one thing, delivering is another. And it’s not as simple as performing, art is all about conception, and the Weeknd seems to have ceded his entire production to third parties and in the process lost control of his […]

I first met Leslie West when I produced the first Crystal Palace garden Party in 1971. Mountain were the US guest band on the bill with Pink Floyd and The Faces. The group were fabulous and were well received. Leslie West then returned as West Bruce and Laing in 1973 and I took them around […]