Some say musicians should be pleased with new ways to promote live concerts but I remind people that Cole Porter didn’t play live shows. Songwriters are getting a poor deal right now. The reason I respect for-fee services like Spotify is that they are slowly turning people who are used to getting their music for-FREE, into paying ten dollars a month for a subscription model.
These payments don’t add up to replacement for income from physical or digital sales at the moment - but I think they can if everyone sits down – record companies, artists and digital services - to figure out a fairer way of doing business.
Un extrait d’un long billet de blog où le frontman de U2 revient aussi sur les conséquences de son accident de vélo, qui lui a coûté son coude et peut-être sa capacité à jouer de la guitare. Ce qui ne changera pas le cours de « la civilisation occidentale », puisque personne ne se souvient de la dernière fois que Bono a été vu derrière une guitare.