Jacko: Sony Music Tells Him to Beat It
Bad news for Michael Jackson. Sony Music doesn’t want him back, after all.
The King of Pop had been positioning himself for a possible rapprochement with Sony since the departure of company COO Tommy Mottola. You may remember that last summer Jackson was busy calling Mottola a racist. A few months later, Mottola was forced out of Sony Music and replaced with NBC News producer Andrew Lack.
Jackson, who is into Sony for hundreds of millions of dollars, was thought to be completely finished with the music company as far as new music goes. After his "Invincible" album tanked, Michael even announced the formation of a new record label on his own. More recently, however, Jackson made up with his lawyer, John Branca, the same man who negotiated all of Michael’s previous Sony deals. The thought was that Branca and Charles Koppelman, Michael’s manager, might be able to put him back on track with Sony.
But now I am told, in very definite terms, that Sony is not interested in new albums by Michael Jackson. "He has one album left, a greatest hits album," said my source. "There’s also a boxed set. But that’s it. Nothing new and nothing more." And let me tell you: The person who said this knows what he’s talking about. As far as Sony goes, Michael Jackson can beat it.
Jackson will always have financial ties to Sony, of course. There’s his famous $200 million loan against the Beatles catalog. There’s also all the money Sony laid out for miscellaneous projects like remastering Jackson’s older CDs for re-release in 2001. Jackson, I reported two years ago, ran up bills for millions at Sony Studios choosing improved versions of old songs for the new CDs. But just this month I was able to buy the improved "Off the Wall" album in a Sony clearance sale at Virgin Music in Union Square for a cost-cutting 10 bucks.
So what will Jackson do without Sony? He could start his own record label, of course. Or he could make a deal at Dreamworks Records, where his more-or-less permanent manager, John McClain, is an executive. One music company off his list now, though, is Universal, where Mottola is now set up to revive the un-missed Casablanca Records and may eventually go on to bigger things.
Fuente: ROGER FRIEDMAN, FOX NEWS 411
Resumiendo, dice que Michael volvió a requerir los servivios del abogado JOHN BRANCA, el cuál ha negociado muchos de los grandes contratos de su carrera, opara que junto con su mánager CH. KOPPELMAN intentaran arregalrle su situación con SONY MUSIC. La respuesta de la compañía ha sido negativa.
Luego dice que sólo le falta un GREATEST HITS y un BOX SET
(supongo que habrá bebido más de la cuenta) con SONY, pero que no habrá nada más de nuevo.
Lo demás ya lo sabíamos.
Bad news for Michael Jackson. Sony Music doesn’t want him back, after all.
The King of Pop had been positioning himself for a possible rapprochement with Sony since the departure of company COO Tommy Mottola. You may remember that last summer Jackson was busy calling Mottola a racist. A few months later, Mottola was forced out of Sony Music and replaced with NBC News producer Andrew Lack.
Jackson, who is into Sony for hundreds of millions of dollars, was thought to be completely finished with the music company as far as new music goes. After his "Invincible" album tanked, Michael even announced the formation of a new record label on his own. More recently, however, Jackson made up with his lawyer, John Branca, the same man who negotiated all of Michael’s previous Sony deals. The thought was that Branca and Charles Koppelman, Michael’s manager, might be able to put him back on track with Sony.
But now I am told, in very definite terms, that Sony is not interested in new albums by Michael Jackson. "He has one album left, a greatest hits album," said my source. "There’s also a boxed set. But that’s it. Nothing new and nothing more." And let me tell you: The person who said this knows what he’s talking about. As far as Sony goes, Michael Jackson can beat it.
Jackson will always have financial ties to Sony, of course. There’s his famous $200 million loan against the Beatles catalog. There’s also all the money Sony laid out for miscellaneous projects like remastering Jackson’s older CDs for re-release in 2001. Jackson, I reported two years ago, ran up bills for millions at Sony Studios choosing improved versions of old songs for the new CDs. But just this month I was able to buy the improved "Off the Wall" album in a Sony clearance sale at Virgin Music in Union Square for a cost-cutting 10 bucks.
So what will Jackson do without Sony? He could start his own record label, of course. Or he could make a deal at Dreamworks Records, where his more-or-less permanent manager, John McClain, is an executive. One music company off his list now, though, is Universal, where Mottola is now set up to revive the un-missed Casablanca Records and may eventually go on to bigger things.
Fuente: ROGER FRIEDMAN, FOX NEWS 411
Resumiendo, dice que Michael volvió a requerir los servivios del abogado JOHN BRANCA, el cuál ha negociado muchos de los grandes contratos de su carrera, opara que junto con su mánager CH. KOPPELMAN intentaran arregalrle su situación con SONY MUSIC. La respuesta de la compañía ha sido negativa.
Luego dice que sólo le falta un GREATEST HITS y un BOX SET
(supongo que habrá bebido más de la cuenta) con SONY, pero que no habrá nada más de nuevo.Lo demás ya lo sabíamos.
