No Rock And Roll Fun

DON'T CRY FOR THE RECORDING INDUSTRY: It's shape isn't as bad as they want to tell you - indeed, keep telling you. Sure, the sales of records might have slipped, globally, a little, but the meat of industry, selling tunes as opposed to plastic discs is thriving - music publishing raked in a nice $3.5billion in 2001, a couple of hundred million more than the year before. Worry about Oasis albums on the net? They could afford to buy us all one. Although, erm, we'd rather you didn't.
FT reports - spare any chord change for a cuppa, guv?