tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post8227670775168404044..comments2024-03-28T09:33:26.444+00:00Comments on No Rock And Roll Fun: Lydon draws attention to single he doesn't want you to buySimon Hayes Budgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07084524317888577404noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-65580220733159424092012-04-18T18:50:34.582+00:002012-04-18T18:50:34.582+00:00I thought that too. Of course, one benefit of this...I thought that too. Of course, one benefit of this is that it seems to have killed off the tiresome tabloid staple of 'campaigning' to get an old song to number 1. Pre-iTunes, not a week would go by without the Bizarre column launching yet another zany wacky sub-student-magazine crusade to convince the music industry they should re-release Agadoo or Snooker Bloody Loopy. Hacks would guffaw <i>"Hey, Keith Harris is brilliant in Channel 5's 'Celebrity Enema', we should demand Orville's Song is re-released and then get it to number 1!!"</i>. Over the following days campaign updates would be posted, stars would be prodded for their endorsement and a shit logo would be designed. Then - Success! The re-release date would be announced. The campaign would go into overdrive, ending only on Sunday night when the single eventually limped to number 43 and was never spoken of again. These days, this sort of space-filling piffle doesn't really work. Any 'campaign' would consist of telling people to go to iTunes straight away to buy something that's probably a bit shit. Good luck spinning 800 words out of that. <br /><br />(Incidentally, I once spoke to a music industry bod who told me that, more often than not, they'd be planning to re-release a track anyway for some reason or other, and gossip hacks would simply spot these in the forthcoming release schedules and then launch their 'campaign' to get it to happen, a bit like me 'campaigning' to get a massive tree put up in the market square in December)Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-61108369875535223742012-04-18T13:58:34.043+00:002012-04-18T13:58:34.043+00:00I really can't see the point of 're-releas...I really can't see the point of 're-releasing' singles these days. I mean, its not like God Save The Queen is going to be any more available on iTunes than it was last week.paul wellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00679534641887915712noreply@blogger.com