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Is social media killing pop music? And where have all the bands gone?
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Caught in the piercing super-trouper of perusal this week …
... the BRITS 2024, a howling embarrassment.
… Medieval Beatles! She Came In Through the Privy Window, Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Kestrel, Comely Rita, I’m Happy Just To Joust With You …
… the wisdom of Tony Hancock.
… The Last Dinner Party and other ‘art concepts’.
… the Pattie Boyd/George Harrison/Eric Clapton love triangle.
… the days when “forming a band was a conspiracy against the tedium of life”.
… is it all over for young blokes in pop music? And is being in a band still considered sexy?
… the oldest musicians still touring: if Willie Nelson’s still going at 90, won’t Ed Sheeran be on the road at 100?
… “these days hanging a guitar round your neck insinuates that you might be homeless”.
.. and a whole range of facts that make starting groups seem less attractive (the cost, the likely profit, the decreasing appeal of ‘abroad’, digital gangs, how big ticket prices soak up all the live circuit cash).
... plus new patrons piped aboard!
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