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jim morris, the lead singer for the rock music group, is dead. he was 27. t early years in music was sad because you lose people and you lose the beatles. this small gather something only the beginning. the event is so momentous that historians may one day view it as landmark in the decline of the british empire the beatles are breaking up. it was like a death for a lot of people. rock and roll as we understood in the 1960s was no longer with us. well, there will never be another beatles, never. you might know i lost my old band or i left it. imagine there s no heaven it s easy if you try ....
To get around, zeppelin uses a chartered 707. the kind of plane president nixon uses. the president s plane doesn t have an organ or 15-foot mirrored bar or in private quarters two bedrooms and a fireplace. i m a bit upset it doesn t have a pool table on board. apart from that i think this is the best way to travel. americans are now spending $2 billion a year on music. that s $700 million more than the movie industry grosses from about three tis the amount of money taken in by all spectator sports. i m telling you rock n roll is no different than ibm, xerox, sara lee, chevrolet, supply and demand, it s the same business. rock n roll had been a gritty novelty business. it was not the center of the world in the 50s and 60s. in the 70s it becomes the main event. ....
for so long, you kind of waited for the next beatles album to see where the music was going. and we just hoped that the music they would come up with individually would be that good. and i don t no longer have to, need the beatles album, you better go write 20 songs by tomorrow. i just write when i feel like it. you ve been called the dragon lady who took the beatles apart. can we please give the credit for all the nice music that george made and ringo made and i made since we broke up. she did it. the fact is that yoko ono did not break up the beatles. time broke up the beatles, money broke up the beatles. business broke up the beatles. the desire to go off and do their own stuff broke up the beatles. he s a fleshier, heavier beatle these days. respectively married. and when the kids come to his concerts, they don t scream anymore. they listen. ....
I thought that was one of the most utopian scenes i had ever encountered in music. mancuso is one of the guys who took the art form of playing the records and how he curated the records. he may play an isaac hayes record. he may play a salsa record. it wasn t so much about a style as it was an an aesthetic of music. you can go up and down. you can get high. and stay here all night. why are people dancing again? i wish i knew. but i m glad it s happening. what we now know as disco really starts with a band called the tramps. the drummer, earl young, invents the idea with eight on the high ....
we had an album out, two years out, the buckingham nicks. nick really liked the music. they asked us to join. fleetwood mac, first, stevie and lindsey album for sure changed our lives. fomd arrived. beside being rich and famous in california. this is it, kid. freedom freedom forever ever the records sometimes bore an audience. they re not going to have another hit. or this one isn t as good as that. ....