Adlington on Rio 2016: No Mas!

At 23, she gives up on the Olympics... But she will focus on the Fina worlds!

**RANT** Universal & EMI to Merge.

Kylie, Coldplay and others are dropped from EMI as a result of the merger.

 

 

Both FTC and EU approve it.

 

Bad move. Now there will be three major labels that will be able to sign and maintain cheaper talent. As a result of the merger, some big names-Kylie and Coldplay-among others, are dropped from the EMI library. Stupid ass Katy Perry remains. Unsure of the future of some UMG artists-including Roman Lob and Nina Zilli, who competed in this year's EUROVISION Song Contest. Keep in mind, EMI has the Pink Floyd and Beatles libraries as well. EMI also used to run a film unit (co-distributed Convoy and Highlander) and a TV unit that produced made for TV movies in the United States, but no television series.

 

I wonder what will happen to those released from EMI and Universal in the near future? Hopefully they'll go independent.

 

In my honest opinion, we're in for one super-major record label that will only sign and maintain cheaper talent in the next few years when Universal/EMI merges with Sony-Bertelsmann and WMG. Hopefully this will be the end of the major record labels as they all go bankrupt for good. Once and for all.

 

As Crustified Dibbs would put it back in '94:

 

 



...And I'm Feeling Like a Criminal!?

Arrested for hash?

Friday Jukebox 9.21.12

I found this nice gem from 1978 by the German group Boney M. If you know about Russian history, then "Rasputin"-a ballad about the life and times of Rasputin himself-is right for you. Typical disco that still sounds great to this day.

From their 1978 album, Love for Sale.

Summer is over, today (9.21) is the first day of fall.

Cecil Gordon, 71, Winston Cup Privateer

Link.

The first driver in Cup that carried the number 24 whose last name is Gordon (figure that one out-both not related). His last Cup start was at what is now Richmond International Raceway in February 1985.

Years before Chrysler's exodus from Cup after the 1985 season, he was one of the last to race Chrysler products (along with Buddy Arrington among others) in Cup until its return to that division in 2001.

Steve Sabol, 69, President of NFL Films

Brain tumor.

Quite a genius that made NFL Films what it is today.

Friday Jukebox 9.14.12

A post-EUROVISION effort from Soluna Samay Kettel, in which "Come Again (The Quetzal)" would have got the Danish representative a better position in the final than "Should've Known Better" (and I like both). The raw power is displayed here in this follow up, which was released in June. English and Spanish are the languages (she and G.G. Kettel are both from Guatemala, but based in Denmark) here.