Harmonia
Ah, 1974, the days when even eight-minute performances were considered wussy; nothing more than an opportunity for artists to banter with the crowd prior to the 28-minute drum solo. Read more
Madge to do a Prince or a Radiohead?
Bloggers with an ‘I-told-you-so’ attitude are smug and annoying but I can’t help but link Madonna’s latest deal with Live Nation with my post of March 2007. Mrs Ritchie has done almost exactly what I predicted.
She’s signed up for a monster touring, merchandise and album deal with the very people I had so much trouble speaking to on the phone, the funny thing is that I was told back then that “this is not a story” . . . I guess it’s a story now.Â
Furthermore, she says in the above interview: “Who knows how my albums will be distributed in the future?”
Like this perhaps?
RIP record labels.