HNTI: Nobody Knows Anything, The Beatles edition
The paperback of “How NOT to Invest” drops this week; to celebrate, this whole week I am running various...
Lefsetz: Anybody Can Get Publicity
We are all looking to make it. And we employ signifiers, status markers, to indicate that we’ve crossed the threshold, that...
Billy Joel: My Life
Bob Lefsetz: We tend to think life has an on/off switch. You’re either alive or your dead. But it rarely goes down...
Old School/New School
OLD SCHOOL Get a record deal. NEW SCHOOL Get a fan base. OLD SCHOOL Learn how to play your instrument. NEW SCHOOL Learn how to use...
Nobody Knows Anything, The Beatles edition
In celebration of Abbey Road being released 55 years ago today (September 26, 1969), here is a short,...
Queen’s Catalog: $1 Billion Dollars…
“THEY ARE THE CHAMPIONS: Word has it that Sony Music has prevailed in the contest for Queen’s...
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Billie Eilish may be only 22, but she sings like a chanteuse with decades of hard living behind her — a world-weary angel....
Now And Then
Spotify: YouTube: Do they think we’re deaf? Why can’t they leave well enough alone? And going straight to the...
The Modern Music Business
You don’t know everything. And if you pretend to know everything, those who know something will dismiss you. Used to be a...
