Sunday

Billy is feeling somewhat better. He's off the couch, and bouncing around. I'm so glad!

In other news: Hank's gotten on Page Six of the NY Post again. I'll link to it & supply the full text in case you don't want to get an account with the Post (I don't know why).

THE DARK SIDE OF POP MUSIC

WE'RE looking forward to reading "Dirty Little Secrets of the Record Business: The Real Reason Why the Music You Hear Sucks." The book by Hank Bordowitz - a member of the Recording Academy, which votes on the Grammy Awards - is due next year from Chicago Review Press. It will trace the pernicious influence of payola from the time of Gilbert & Sullivan to the uninspired present, a dark age where deejays have no control over playlists, and the latest programming idea, Jack FM, involves no deejay at all. "It's interesting that Eliot Spitzer has targeted record companies as opposed to program directors," Bordowitz, who also wrote "Billy Joel: The Life & Times of an Angry Young Man," told Page Six at Libation on Ludlow Street. Will he be naming names? "Hell, yes!" Among the reasons "why the music business has little hope for deliverance," says Bordowitz, is that "corporations have to answer to stockholders quarterly, and that doesn't leave a lot of room [or time] for artist development."