Labels:text | screenshot | font | number OCR: AM/FM I Fear For The Future Of Music Because ... by David Cassidy, of Cynostic Why? Why do you think I fear for the future of music? I'll tell you, shall I? Because, dear reader, it's being incorporated. Recently we've had two major buy-outs of famous record labels. Firstly, there was the Sony purchase of the ailing American giant CBS. This company has now been renamed to Sony Music Entertainment Ltd. Secondly we have had the Thorn- EMI buy-out of Virgin Records, which cost Thorn-EMI about £15 million. But why are these things necessarily bad developments for the music industry, I point you, ladies and gentlemen of the AM/FM jury, to the recent case of Michael versus Sony, George Michael - an extremely gifted personage - recently announced his intention to break his contract with Sony because he was being treated like significant. "product rather than a recording artist", Pompous? Certainly, But also very It apparently all came about due to Sony's insistance that Michael would have a new album ready for release by xxx Michael and he refused to pander to such demands. date. This proved to be too much for So, he decided to break his contract.
