Be Excellent To Each Other

Some good news, Robin Gibb seems to be recovering from his liver cancer. Considering how ill he looked in November, too.

As if none of us had Whitney....

Terrible news, but not entirely unexpected.

Yeah, why is everyone in showbiz 'shocked' and so on? She wasn't Taylor Swift.

Unfortunately she was the same as Winehouse. In retrospect you could see it coming a mile off.

Quick - make more money off her before the free publicity vanishes :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/fe ... lbum-price

She had a one hundred million pound deal in 2000 to make six albums. She's made three, one of which sold a couple of million... and her record company has had to pay her royalties on those on top of the hundred million they gave her, so it's unlikely that the company will break even after 12 years no matter how much they charge now.

Big record companies are evil, true, but their staff need paying and Houston had a contractual obligation to do her part in that regard, instead she got high.

I don't blame them in the slightest.

Typical money-grabbing bastards. That's not a surprise at all. What is however is why anyone buys music immediately after that person had died. They're dead, they don't give a shit anymore, and if you really cared you'd have the album already. So, seriously, what the fuck are you doing except lining the pockets of the record company? Morons.

Good on them. Anyone who cared one jot would own the album already. Ones and zeros.

Legally obliged to maximise shareholder profits of course, so they could get sued or sacked for not taking this decision, then there's staff motivation when cuts are being made in all these places. Again, there's many reasons RCs are cunts but in this instance I hate the game more than the player.

I wonder if a flagging artist could bump their album price on iTunes, wait a week, get some rumours of their death going and see huge £££ in the hours or days until the rumour is proved false?

That's what got me to buy that Jeff Goldblum album.

David Kelly has left us I loved him as O'Reilly in Fawlty Towers and he was an excellent Grandpa Joe in the otherwise dreadful Tim Burton Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

How much is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on iTunes?

Whitney Houston died, it was on the news just now

No, really?

I'm surprised he wasn't already dead. He looked bloody old when I was a kid. Seemed like a nice bloke.

Her and Michael Jackson, apparently.

Frank Carson has blessed the world with his heels.

Davy Jones of The Monkees fame is in the horizontal phone booth.

Dick Clark is wandering the Elysian Fields.

Adam "MCA" Yauch has been promoted to Subterranean Truffle Inspector .

WTF

Arghhh!

Absolutely gutted by that.

Ditto. "Sure Shot" is one of my favourite songs of all time.

Fuck!

Keep meaning to mention Maurice Sendak passing away recently. He died on the 8th May aged 83.

Brilliant artist/illustrator most famous for Where the Wild Things Are.

RIP Donald 'Duck' Dunn, one of the greatest bass players ever to live, and a member of Booker T and the MGs, The Blues Brothers Band, and the Stax Records house band.

With Adam 'MCA' Yauch, 'Duck' Dunn, we're having a run on awesome bassists.

Donna Summer. Only 63, cancer.

Really? Bugger.

Saddened by that, Donna Summer was an absolute legend and a very guilty pleasure of mine.

She'd be an even guiltier pleasure now.

Choir eternal recruits new baritone

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau dead at 86.

Did he take the weather with him?

The curse of the drummer strikes again

Thats a shitter. He had big shoes to fill, and did a very good job of it.

Shit.

You'll be alright.

LOL!

How dare you imply something in a jokey fashion! I thereby conclude you support the Armenian genocide.

Robin Gibb has become formatted with black borders. And he seemed to be recovering so well.

edit: first scorer! Governmentyard is in the red.