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| Mobson | Mar 28 2013, 09:59 PM Post #1 |
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Gosh! I do love Front Row - the five night a week arts and music review programme had better never be axed or I will be round to someone's house with one.... Mark Lawson was talking to Michael Bolton, one of the world's most successful pop balladeers, who I'm not a fan of, but really enjoyed listening to his interview in this evening's programme where he was talking about the two transitions in his career; from struggling rock star to superstar pop singer, and his appearing in a spoof video for the american satire show, Saturday Night Live, with the comedy troup Lonely Island, in which he appears as Erin Brockovich (amongst other characters) in a 'Pirates of the Caribbean' spoof music video called Jack Sparrow which has gone viral with 104,338,662 hits to date...and which has garnered a demographic of younger fans who did not know his music.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=GI6CfKcMhjY Talk ensued about the actual writing of his book, The Soul of it All, My Music, My Life, in which he begins with the making of the above video changing its chronology....he then gets serious about the 'chilling' effects of litigation regarding plaguerism of a song he'd never heard; a jury found against him despite evidence to contrary, and then his insurance company declined to cover him and he took over twelve years spending time with lawyers and barristers in defence of the action...."and you're paying for all of them"...its the equivalent he says of being in Hell..and it made him think what he was actually doing with his life...hence the video I guess...a funny story about Barry Levinson the director at the end of the interview. His Front Row interview commences 14 mins in... http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rgmbc Edited by Mobson, Mar 29 2013, 08:49 AM.
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