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...high sales figures of acts such as tenor Russell "The Voice" Watson and teen soprano Charlotte Church, now place their bets on musicians with broad commercial potential - the chance to earn big numbers swiftly. So they throw seven-figure contracts and vast marketing budgets at those who can best ape the pop stars. What they forget, of course, is that serious, carefully nurtured and developed classical stars may not yield immediate pop-size receipts, but can have an international shelf life of decades. Richard Lyttleton, president of classics and jazz for EMI International, points to the example of superstar conductor...
...YORKâAn ape of a man with slick black hair and a purple shirt jumps up next to a gun-slinging bandit, the two of them swinging red plastic mallets at young men and women who scatter frantically...
...wisdom holds that you should never invest in a stock mutual fund that has less than a three-year record--no matter how well the fund performed the previous year or two. Even a monkey throwing darts has a 50% shot at superior returns over one year, and the ape's odds of doing well over two years remain uncomfortably high. Do you really want to take the chance that your fund manager is nothing more than a lucky primate? Of course not. But you don't want to rule out potential winners either. New evidence suggests that young funds...
...while his dub albums are best swallowed whole. And there are plenty of failed experiments, indulgences and dodgy reissues that should be avoided. Each of the following selections, though, marks a turning point in Perry's musical career and mind - both of which have more twists than most Super Ape (1976) Arguably Perry's finest hour, this album carries dub over the line to a white prog-rock audience. Having earlier stripped reggae back to its basics, Perry piles on layers of vocals and effects Black Ark Experryments (1995) Perry raps mayhem and madness (Poop Song?) into the electro...
...neglected jungles of comix-dom. Considered a "crackpot" by those few who even know that I am deep in-country, I hack away at the bush in search of the unknown and little-cared-for creatures that signal this system still has life. Recently, while hiding from the brutish, ape-like natives who patrol the area, I spied a new species...