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Date: 31 May 2006 17:03:15
Today has been full of endless excitement. The sun has been smiling down on us and Christmas under is 7 months away.
What has got me wondering today is the death of contempary music as we know it. Maybe I shouldn't be surprised as "Rock & Roll", to use its 70's expression of love, was based on the music of youth. Now its polarised into the music of Middle Age and pre-pubesent teenager girlies.
Remember the cry of The Who's My Generation - I hope I die/Before I get old?? Now, even with 2 members dead, they are still touring. The Rolling Stones are on their "millionth" World Tour and Elton John is still managing to produce rubbish and selling it.
The thing is that they probably spent most of their money on sex, drugs and booze (in Elton's case clothes & specs) - the rest they wasted. Therefore they have to keep touring and re-releasing their Greatest Hits every other year in order to fund their retirements - or tax bills.
Then came punk. The dawn of a new age. The old order was swept away and the youth reclaimed music's lost soul. Now they're reforming and touring to fund their retirements.
All this is of course under threat by the EU who are insisting that performers are not entitled to royalties on recordings after 50 years of release. Therefore the likes of Cliff are currently under threat and people like The Beatles will soon follow. They, or their record companies, will no longer be able to prevent anyone from releasing compilations of their music without them earning a cent.
For people who right their own songs this will not be a problem but people who've made a living singing other peoples will be in deep do-do.
Personally I think that they should be treated in order of their crapness - if they were a rubbish act then they get nothing. I offer myself as the judge of all things musically worthless. I'm an independent voice with no ties to the music industry and offer my services free of charge.
Watch out Westlife, and other manufactured twaddle, I'm after you. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!