Jill Sobule, Marillion, Dave Pegg and may well increasingly bode the future. No great difference from the 19th century where the performers of the day required a benefactor.......
(Subtext, tho', is that she can't get a deal despite her history and the critical acclaim bestowed on her last 2 releases, which, no doubt, sold in 10s)

wrong thread

For five grand (American) you can get her ex-husband to do you a song of your own, personally recorded and sent on CD, or you can have dinner with him.
http://www.richardthompson-music.com/catch_of_the_day.asp?id=1030
I'll do it for fifty quid.

...in the music industry?

(also, I thought LT's hubby (note not ex) was uber-rich, for some reason...)

For £100,000 you can get your mush on the front cover of The Word...but only if you have your own beard.

For £4.50 you get singing lessons from Bob Dylan

$7,005 you get to be Executive Producer on the Linda Thompson recording AND have a bag of chips on the way home

He pays you!

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