Stan Webb: What Can A Poor Boy Do?
Harry Shapiro, Blue Print, March 2001
Stan Webb has every right to be cynical about the music business and how the sharks in suits come on strong as your best friend while you are haemorrhaging your money into their bank accounts. But since the 1990s, as he tells Harry Shapiro, things have been looking up.
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