"However, the sad fact is, and really, god forbid, when he pops it, you won't have enough room in the house to store all the stuff the record company will release. Same with every artist who croaks - see how long it takes before the shelves are stocked full of 'greatest hits' (like that's the last thing we need, another Police greatest hits!), or unreleased material... Roy Orbison, Elvis, Nina Simone, Johnny Cash, George Harrison, Ian Dury, etc. etc..... Ok, ok, not all my musical taste, but it's almost like the record companies are counting their lucky (or unlucky rather) stars when someone dies... Immediate cash boost. Sad, but tell me it's not true." Well, in the case of George Harrison, it's not. He had himself begun the process of re-releasing his back catalogue, starting with All Things Must Pass. And while he was working on his last studio album, Brainwashed, he was also putting together the Dark Horse Years boxed set. It just happened that he succumbed to brain cancer while working on these last two projects. Thank God they saw the light of day. ----Original Message Follows---- From: police-request@mailman.xmission.com Reply-To: police@mailman.xmission.com To: police@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Police Digest, Vol 15, Issue 26 Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 09:45:50 -0600 Message: 3 Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 12:32:37 +0100 From: "Jason Sheldon" <jason@digital-solutions.co.uk> Subject: RE: R: [Police] dvd / Stewart new cd cover To: "'Timothy Enders'" <tenders@loyola.edu>, <police@mailman.xmission.com> Message-ID: <000601c44315$2563fae0$0200a8c0@desktop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

What does everyone else think? Does he actually "owe" the world what we want? Or is it legitamately up to him to decide what he does?

Of course it's entirely upto him what he gives us (well, ultimately the record company, but depending on his publishing rights I guess he has control over it too...) However, the sad fact is, and really, god forbid, when he pops it, you won't have enough room in the house to store all the stuff the record company will release. Same with every artist who croaks - see how long it takes before the shelves are stocked full of 'greatest hits' (like that's the last thing we need, another Police greatest hits!), or unreleased material... Roy Orbison, Elvis, Nina Simone, Johnny Cash, George Harrison, Ian Dury, etc. etc..... Ok, ok, not all my musical taste, but it's almost like the record companies are counting their lucky (or unlucky rather) stars when someone dies... Immediate cash boost. Sad, but tell me it's not true. J. _________________________________________________________________ Stop worrying about overloading your inbox - get MSN Hotmail Extra Storage! http://join.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200362ave/direct/01/