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old men be complain' dept.

Cold, Calculating British Pop Producer Is Aghast At Cold, Calculating Young Musicians

Pete Waterman—best known as part of the terrible trio of Stock, Aitken, and Waterman, which brought you a string of mechanicistic late '80s pop trifles from Bananarama, Rick Astley, and others—is apparently taken aback at how common it is for young musicians to immediately hock their songs to advertisers. In a post on the Guardian's music blog, Waterman complains that young musicians are too money-hungry and too business-minded (and perhaps not so in need of a producer-svengali): More »