International news_Skrufff_31st May 2005
Wham Man Bangs Dance Is Dead Gang
Music business legend turned author Simon Napier Bell chatted to Skrufff
this week about the state of today's music business and admitted he remains
puzzled by music hacks who constantly claim dance music is dead.
"Dance music is half of all the pop business and it always has been; rock &
roll was dance music for Christ's sake, and so was rock meant to be now,"
he pointed out. "But nowadays the music press talk about rock as if it's
some sort of rival to dance. As far as I can see, in all crises and problem
periods for the music business, it's always been dance music that saves,
revitalises and refinances the music industry."
Simon was speaking to Skrufff to promote his latest music industry
autobiography 'I'm Coming To Take You To Lunch', which focuses on the
early 80's era when he turned George Michael and Wham into global superstars.
As well as managing Wham, he also previously managed T Rex's Marc Boland
and the Yardbirds in the 60s, though insisted that throughout his career his
first love has always been dance music.
"Dance is totally insidious and totally destructive of all good moral clean
living it breeds sex, hedonism, drug-taking, lack of responsibility
everything that make life enjoyable and worthwhile," he laughed.
"Dance music is everything I live for. With the addition of modern dance hall
technology and youth/drug culture, it can influence young people everywhere,
and should. It's subversive of all traditionally culture-religious
claptrap. It's magnificent," he said.
Simon's new book 'I'm Coming to Take You To Lunch' is out now on Random
House.
(Jonty Skrufff / Skrufff.com)
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