Thanks to Mark Hall for a link to a highly recommended profile of music biz player Rick Rubin in Sunday’s New York Times.
The Music Man, by Lynn Hirschberg, is a long revelatory feature article, based around interviews with the legendary founder of Def Jam and agenda-setting producer (Beastie Boys>Johnny Cash), now co-head of Columbia Records, parachuted in by Sony to save the company from becoming irrelevant in the new music economy.
Rubin’s first two signings have been a rock band, Gossip, and an English operatic tenor, Paul Potts.
www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/magazine/02rubin.t.html?_28&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Gerry Smith
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