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(Drone Base/Reuters) Welcome to the Capital Note, a newsletter about business, finance, and economics. On the menu today: the ransomware group behind the Colonial pipeline shutdown, Druckenmiller’s warning to the Fed, a banker bets big on Doge, and David Bahnsen’s conversation with Larry Kudlow. To sign up for the Capital Note, follow this link. Extortion as a Service If the $70 billion run-up in Dogecoin that preceded Elon Musk’s Saturday Night Live appearance didn’t convince you we ...

Record Store Day, August 29, 2020 in London. "The vinyl buyer is not just a 55-year-old white guy," says Matt Harmon, president of Beggars Group U.S. Early last year, executives at the New England music chain Newbury Comics were discussing pulling back on vinyl, thinking the format’s comeback might have run its course. Then, during the pandemic, sales picked up, thanks to a new kind of customer: young people. "The pandemic totally remade who the vinyl customer was," says Carl Mello, Newbury�...

Bhaskar Menon, Legendary EMI and Capitol Records Head, Dies at 86 Trilby Beresford Bhaskar Menon Bhaskar Menon, the founding chairman and CEO at EMI Music Worldwide who is widely credited for breaking Pink Floyd in the U.S. and presiding over one of Capitol Records’ most successful eras, died Thursday at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 86. “Determined to achieve excellence, Bhaskar Menon built EMI into a music powerhouse and one of our most iconic, global institutions,”...

Over his 34-year tenure at EMI, Menon worked with a slew of boldfaced artists including the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Queen, David Bowie and Tina Turner.

Print It’s a hard life on easy street / Just white painted picket fences far as you can see / If you think we live in the land of the free / You should try to be Black like me ... —Mickey Guyton, “Black Like Me” (2020) Mickey Guyton could make music history for the second time in four months during next Sunday’s CBS telecast of the 63rd annual Grammy Awards. The Texas-bred singer and songwriter first made history in December when her stirring, social justice-inspired song, “B...

Sammy Nestico, an omnipresence in big band arranging and composing, best known for a close association with the Count Basie Orchestra, died of natural

Print Making timeless music was a lifelong calling throughout the eight-decade career of acclaimed composer and arranger Sammy Nestico. His music elevated albums by artists as varied as the Count Basie Orchestra, Michael Bublé, Barbra Streisand, Phil Collins, Frank Sinatra, Buddy Rich and Bing Crosby, and also contributed to the scores for “The Color Purple,” “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “Heaven Can Wait,” “Hawaii Five-O” and dozens of other films and TV shows. A longtime Ca...

How Gene Simmons Recorded His 1978 Solo Album: Book Excerpt examines the intertwining histories of Kiss, Aerosmith, Cheap Trick and Starz to show how they paved the way for both hair metal and grunge. In the following excerpt, Brod delves into the recording of Gene Simmons 1978 solo album, which featured guest turns by lead guitarists from the other three acts – Joe Perry, Rick Nielsen and Richie Ranno: Simmons recorded the album’s basic tracks in around four weeks at the Manor, in the qua...

How Gene Simmons Recorded His 1978 Solo Album: Book Excerpt examines the intertwining histories of Kiss, Aerosmith, Cheap Trick and Starz to show how they paved the way for both hair metal and grunge. In the following excerpt, Brod delves into the recording of Gene Simmons 1978 solo album, which featured guest turns by lead guitarists from the other three acts – Joe Perry, Rick Nielsen and Richie Ranno: Simmons recorded the album’s basic tracks in around four weeks at the Manor, in the qua...