3 posts tagged “beatles”

Back to face the music today pop-pickers,

Did you know that copyright law in the UK only allows for a 50 life span before an artists work is considered to be in the public domain?

What that means is that 50 years after release of anything creative at all, including music, you will not earn any royalties.

Until now that hasn't really affected the music business - most of the recordings have been commercially made in more recent times but if you count back from now you will see that the 1950's are up for grabs already.

The 1950's is when Rock n Roll was born and believe it or not your favourite art form was invented by your grandad. So much for "cutting edge".

Already there are a few guys out there with thinning hair and halitosis who are preped and ready to flog you Elvis' greatest hits again - except this time you only pay for the packaging and not the music. In a couple of years the true masterpieces will be available and you can expect a plethora of Beatles, Stones and Birds albums to come flying at you everywhere you look.

Are you going to buy them? I doubt it. The people who will buy them are the people who always bought them. They are now aged 60 - 70 and they are the ones you laugh at in this zimmers video.


The thing is that it isn't funny. The way that music has been abandoned by anyone under 40 is a tragedy. Most new bands I hear are pastiches of old music. Where are the latter day Bowies and captain Beefhearts? The sex Pistols of the twenty first century are dedicated to web 2.0 and second life not music. It is so sad that radio and commercial media will have to follow the lead set by what sells in the vain hope that it will attract listeners. Because of the total lack of ingenuity in modern music mass media will  groan on serving up another 30 years of the same old same old until the Boomers die out. All because you - the kids - were too busy TWOCing cars on a video game from some geeks in Alabama.

What the hell is everyone doing? It seems mad to me that when you have opportunity, talent and imagination the world is your oyster but instead of making things and re-inventing the wheel we have all become obsessed with celebrity chefs, WAG's and third rate actresses with eating disorders.

On TV last night I saw Kelly Le Brock - you may remember her as  the best looking, big haired woman to grace the screen in the 1980's - if you don't this was her then:

Then she married Steve Segal and vapourised.

It seems as though she lost her mind at the same time as her looks and now she looks like this:

The thing about her is not that she changed or that image is everything but she is symbolic of how far from reality we are all getting. We are all starting to emulate the fake and fatuous in our everyday lives.

I a feeling a bit despondent today after an incident last night that reminded me of how gullible and easy led most people can be.

You see I had bit of a bust up with some idiots last night who were smashing vodka bottles on the kids playground in the park next door. These 'youth'  were copying Marlon Brando and trying to get drunk in a park, even though I doubt they even know who he was. They acted like characters from a cheap B movie. It was really sad to watch. Not one of them had an ounce of flair or originality. Even their abuse was hackneyed and dull.

The blokes knew they were wrong and backed down when I confronted them and quickly said said sorry but the girls didn't. They wanted to fight.

Obviously they thought they were intimidating and could get away with it. Years of Grange Hill and Leave it to Kotter had not inspired them enough to be truly original it seems and they acted as if telling me to "Fuck off" was enough to del with any and all situations. It isn't.

My kids play there everyday and it soon turned into an episode of East Enders. I won't back down when it comes to my nippers and the stand off was a little more protracted than I would have liked. Shouting, swearing the girls left without making the slightest effort to pick up the shards of glass that were all over the playground.

So guess who was out at 7am this morning, in the park with a brush cleaning up after those morons. (Better than waiting for the council.)

I blame Elvis for all this. The supposed creator of rock n' roll. If he was anywhere near as good as the old school think he was he would have left us more to aspire to than a curled lip, bad attitude and a few beers in a park with some fat slappers who think they are Pricilla.

The sad truth is that most of us will never be Elvis. In fact most of us are clones of the worse kind - living versions of the Fat slags from Viz.

That's what we have created folks.
Our youth.
The future.
Elvis with an Asbo.