No Rock And Roll Fun

CONTROL: We'd already put pop papers to bed before we saw Alexis Petridis' piece on the op-ed page of the Guardian yesterday warning us that Peter Gabriel's plan to give artistic control back to the artist would result in the music industry being reduced to a grey goo; Big Bubbles has beaten us to the punch by dismissing this for the rubbish it is. The odd thing is that Alexis has got a whole team of editors above him, and still manages to produce what is a frankly puzzlingly ridiculous piece: suggesting that it's better to give everybody stabilisers rather than risk a few Black Albums* from the few. Does he still wish Mozart had been forced to take out some of those notes?

* - we mean the Prince one