One of the things we'll all miss as downloads send albums the way of the dodo are the classic closers. Top of most people's list would probably be the Beatle's "A Day in the Life", but for my money Bowie's "Rock n Roll Suicide" beats all comers hands down.
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The previous article re Twitter got me thinking.
Talk to anyone and soon enough they'll be giving you a link for their facebook page, Twitter account, linkdin address.
I regularly post images to my blogsite. It's a great way to keep clients up to date with my work. If I want to find anything, I google it. Want music? Spotify it.
We take them for granted. They don't cost us a thought. I fact they don't cost us a cent.
So who's paying for it? What exactly is the business model? I just can't understand it. Anytime I bring it up, the knee-jerk reply is advertising, but that's a load of baloney. Advertising still hasn't found a way to effectively and sustainably penetrate the web, never mind making money out of facebook entries.
Is it as I suspect, speculative investment in the hope that a profit making model will emerge and the investors will be in the vanguard ready to collect the spoils?
Somehow I fear that when reality sets in, when the Emperor is seen to be naked, that many if the sites and privileges we take for granted are going to disappear from whence they came. Give it five years. Where will we be then...
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Isn't it about time someone updated the late Guy Peellaert and Nik Cohn's seminal masterpiece, Rock Dreams. I dug out my 1982 reprint recently and was once more immersed in the origins of Rock and Roll and its various offshoots. Their take on its early practitioners were spot on, from Elvis through the Beatles and on to the early seventies. It's at this juncture that the book ran out of steam. It was probably just too close for perceptive analysis. The final two portraits of Bowie and Lou Reed seemed to be included just to please the then contemporary reader, but had nothing meaningful to impart.
How about running an article on it. Peellaert's illustrations are incredible even today, when we're overexposed to the slick use of photoshop.
If you're not familiar with the volume, try and get your hands on one through the usual booksellers.
You can check a site dedicated to him at http://www.guypeellaert.com/