• Does ‘celebrity endorsement’ still work? - and how Quincy Jones invented the blockbuster

  • Nov 11 2024
  • Length: 50 mins
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Does ‘celebrity endorsement’ still work? - and how Quincy Jones invented the blockbuster

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  • Things this week that sent the needle into the red included …

    … the last dance craze the whole world noticed.

    ... “Rock stars used to be anti-establishment. Now they ARE the establishment.”

    … artworks, flags, bespoke I-Ching Coins … would YOU pay £1,350 for a box set?

    … why Quincy Jones made records like a movie director.

    ... how Dylan’s Biograph and Springsteen’s live box started a gold rush.

    … “an unprecedented event in popular recording".

    … Hot Night, Starlight, Give Me Some Time, Lights Out and other working titles for Thriller.

    … “We’re here to save the record business!”

    … the speed of the Beatles: two years between Ed Sullivan and Tomorrow Never Knows; two years from the Cavern to Shea Stadium.

    Plus birthday guest Phil Hopwood: moments in rock history you’d like to have witnessed to see what really happened.


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