🪦 RIP
🪦 Sorry to read the news Tina. Thanks for the songs. For the moves. For the entertainment. A great ride … now it’s time to R.I.P.
🪦 Sorry to see the news about Martin Amis 📚 … thankyou for the stories sir … now may you rest in peace … no cancer is good … that cancer is particularly horrendous.
🪦Et tu Gordon. I didn’t believe it when I read it .. but yes it is true. 84 … not a bad run.
Thank-you for the 🎵music.
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🪦 RIP Cable News
Cable News (1980-2023) by Dana F. Blankenhorn has a very relevant 🎵 track that opens the post.. You can find the 🔗 lyrics here.
Who “wins,” i.e., who is the last one standing? Probably NBC. Comcast has cash flow. NBC has learned how to segment the market with MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Now, NBC News and Local Now. That’s five bites at the remaining cable apple, five channels they can sell to the “skinny bundle” boys like YouTube Plus. And the cost is nominal – a few sets at the NYSE and 30 Rock. Reporters are no longer stars at any of those shops. CNN and Fox are out in the cold. Their owners are going to squeeze all the juice out for profit until there’s nothing left, then throw the remaining goodwill at one of the big boys.
💬 Dana Blankenhorn
🪦 Farewell Dame Edna, Sir Les Patterson, Sandy Stone and of course ‘Bazzer McKenzie’ … I miss you all.
I just read @colinwalker ’s 🔗 post re Ryuichi Sakamoto’s passing …
Sharing a 🎵 perfectly elegant beautiful piece of music that he wrote over 40 years ago.
Farewell Ryuichi and thankyou.
🪦 Farewell Burt. You had a great run. Thank you. Your music inspired many and was appreciated by so many more … even people who didn’t know you, knew your songs.
🪦 WAIT … now Tom Verlaine?… what the hell is going on … another awesome musician we lay to rest.
R.I.P. Tom.
… not me - someone else.
P O W E R F U L
I will come back to this at some point because I want to say something - but not right now. 🚧
🎵🔗 Legendary rock guitarist Jeff Beck dies aged 78
… “suddenly contracting bacterial meningitis”
F U C K !
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