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Topic History of: Open letter from JK to the BPI (again)...
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NCS |
"I believe we are at the start of something big in the consumption of digital entertainment, especially music." - Tony Wadsworth at Radiodays Europe conference March 2013.
When did digital start to take off, 1995/96? How does this bloke keep going, get big earning jobs, is he a Freemason or suchlike? |
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Nipper |
Are you in the recording industry? |
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hedda |
they are mad not to listen to JK and as we know, show biz doesn't change all that much..the basics are always the same.
But we also know that there are probably more wankers per head behind the scenes in show biz.
Especially in the recording industry. |
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Isaac Cox |
You're an English graduate, shape up, man. That opening sentence hasn't been re-read. If you want an open letter to be read and taken seriously, don't just dash it off! |
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JK2006 |
An Open Letter to Wadsworth, Batt, Taylor, Crowe and the BPI council members.
I know you'll none of you want to hear from me - even though it now seems plain that everybody in the Entertainment Industry has been Vile Perverts for 50 years - but since nobody else ever seems to have the courage or honesty to make these points, I felt I should try yet again.
As HMV quite rightly collapses (we all knew it would) and the BPI gears up for another uninspiring show (compared to the Olympics opening ceremony), I want to ask you all, as members of the body representing our once wonderful music industry, don't any of you CARE that we're destroying it?
Don't any of you want to revive it, boost it, encourage it?
Surely you all saw the death of HMV coming? I certainly did.
Surely you all know that booking someone like Russell T Davies could save The Brits? I certainly do.
Surely you all would at least like to HEAR some ideas, solutions, plans...
But then I remember how, despite delivering an excellent 1987 Brits for you all, it took the disaster that was 1989 before the BPI washed its hands of the event and gave it to me FOREVER (a decision rescinded when I turned it back into a success).
They never liked me - even then (before I became officially a Vile Pervert) - because I talked sense, was looking at the good of the industry and not myself, and dared to be honest (not comfortable for those awaiting pensions).
Most of those from that era are now dead or retired. I remember those forgotten early Brits School days when only JK and pervert Obie supported the organisation that has given us Adele and others.
Now it may well be that 68 year old JK has lost the plot and that my old fashioned views are not worth hearing. But might I request that, as you dress for the annual party celebrating the launch of the Titanic each year, you consider asking me to come and address a meeting of the BPI that might help us save the British (and global) music industry?
Jonathan King |
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