clive had no intention of promoting his music even if it was a classic. by this time the labels slowly started pulling away from promoting black vocal groups and black male artist. is it a coincidence that the superstrs of today are all women?

Mottola was interviewed on Howard Stern, last week, and he's a class act. His success in the industry speaks for itself. Sounds like a great book.

Ace said:

Mottola was interviewed on Howard Stern, last week, and he's a class act. His success in the industry speaks for itself. Sounds like a great book.

Yeah alot of people dont get it with labels THEN and NOW, its not the same ballgame. Now sure the signing of masters and this and that, is something that made some rich off of others, but also no one held a gun to anyones head to sign. I mean there are alot of acts that Tommy and Clive discovered etc...and many that we preach about on this forum. I mean look at MO from WB signing Prince, regardless what we think of the deal prince signed he would be a nobody if he hadnt, labels were the only thing u had then, no one was selling shit off a web site then. Nowadays i see the net more beneficial to Older artists more than younger, they actually seem to be taking more advantage of it.

But more on Tommy and Clive etc...i mean if we compiled the list of who they were responsible for and put that up against what gets signed now, you will also see the level of "smarts" that labels have now also.

lastdecember said:

no one held a gun to anyones head to sign

Exactly. That was the way labels worked, in those days (whether it was CBS, Arista, Motown, or whatever).

Mottola said that, when he headed Sony, he had 14,000 people working under him. How do those artists think those folks got paid?