Its a strange world when being worth $40 million is seen as failure.

DavidEye said:

Robbie Williams is almost completely unknown in the U.S. much to his dismay.

He is a singer that used to sing with this U.K. boy-band back in the early 90's called Take That. Now he's had a solo career for a while and is very big in the U.K. and Europe.

Sorry.
Just realized VelvetSplash's post about Robbie Williams was there.

Truth is nobody knows how much money Prince has except himself and his bank manager.

As for Robbie Williams seemingly high total, his money is being made now (he's big everwhere except the U.S.), the vast bulk of Princes was made back in the 80's.

I saw it. I just viewed it as a fun programme - nothing more and nothing less. Some of it was really funny but I was half asleep when I watched it and I forgot to tape it!!!

The guy who had been in bed with M.E. since working with Prince was funny. Alex Hahn looked like a 30-something David Lynch with a weird bouffant hair-do - a bit like Eraser Head. Gayle Chapman's story was funny: "Oh he'd just walk into the house and throw money on the floor"... Most of it was just speculative bollocks but it was very entertaining nontheless. Oh and all those stories about plastic carrier bags full of cash being given out to all and sundry - it was fantastic! They said that he opened the till of his shop in Camden, London on its first day and took all the takings out of the till and took it away with him! Who cares if its true? Its just glam as fuck!

thedoorkeeper said:

LOL...that's what I'm sayin


I bet most of us would love to be worth *ONLY* $40 million.

DavidEye said:

Considering his 1992 mega contract with WB was worth around 100 million dollar, he has done a pretty bad job, if I might say so...

Well, you can speculate Abrazo, but nobody knows for sure how much he's got. And, ITS HIS MONEY! If he's spent it, that's his perogative, surely?

But - there are 2 main points here (all mentioned by a few people here already). Is being worth a (apparently measly) $40 million dollar fortune (if that is accurate) really a failure?

And would you prefer that he concentrated more on profit or art?

Myself, I don't think Prince can be described as a failure in any sense of the word (consider that a lot businesses, let alone pop stars, do not have a 25 year longevity) and I would far prefer him to focus on the music than the money.

Just my, erm, 2 cents (is that all I'm worth? )
[This message was edited Wed May 21 8:22:05 PDT 2003 by Mindflux]

Mindflux said:

Of course. I didn't say it wasn't.



You could argue that when you come from 100 million that it is. And in that figure I am not calculating his 80's albums.


Actually, this thread isn't about that question, but if you ask so... I would defintly prefer he concentrates on art, since his business is made of greedy, inhaling, HORRIFIC practices that need to change fast if he wants to keep a somehwat serious amount of fans. You know besides the die hards who go with him no matter how many times he srews them over.


Hey! I never called HIM a "failure"...

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