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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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