Harpers Bizarre: Feelin’ Groovy
Gene Sculatti, Warner Bros. Records, 1997
"The object of A&R is to give people what they want to have, not what you think they might like to hear." Thus spoke a key executive in charge of artists-and-repertoire at a Britain-based multinational record company in 1996.
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