Lord Lloyd Webber Says Enough

The man behind Cats says too many people are stealing music online, and Britain is losing its leadership in music and entertainment. He wonders:

“The question that occurs to me is whether, in 10 years time, Britain will be a place that the Beatles could have emerged from,” he says.

It was govt control of radio and monopolies from copyrights gone amuck that allowed the Beatles to emerge. When the payola scandal hit the United States in the 1960, the decades old payoff system to get records on the air was broken and and a window opened allowing English bands and black music finally had a chance to get some air time.

Payola is probably back in a more subtle form. Lloyd Webber is rich of the system, so he would defend it, wouldn't he? While he has been hogging airwaves and getting rich, we have been denied unexperienced good music that cannot make it on the air.

If we got rid of copyrights and monopolies, people like Mick Jagger and Lloyd Webber would have to sing for their supper, work for a living. And countless others would get a chance to work for a living too.

Paul McCartney had no idea he made money from airplay until his CPA told him he was a millionaire. It's not the money that motivates artists. How many "yesterdays" are out there that we will never hear because Lord Lloyd Webber hogs the airwaves?

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