Letting off steam. You don't have to like it or agree with it, it is written for my benefit and no one else's. Feel free to add comments if you choose. There will be no moderation. If you choose to post personal attacks, I may well leave them there, so that the bile can fester in the sunshine of my approval, as I regard it from the vantage point of the moral highground.
Thursday 2 July 2009
The New Jim Reeves
It seems that dying was a great career move for Michael Jackson. His records are selling like hot cakes, and now there are reports that here are oodles of unreleased tracks just waiting to be packaged up and inflicted on the world.
I suspect it'll be rather like my father's favourite dead crooner, Jim Reeves, who managed to have more hits after he was dead than when he was alive. He may even have sung on some of them.
The Penguin
He sang all of them. He had a great backlog of unpublished demo tapes that his wife inherited.Instead of publishing all at once,this shrewd businesswoman published one "new" song at a time over a period of
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