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Simon Le Bon Helped Destroy Music Industry: Simon Le Bon Says Digital Industry Distills Music
Simon Le Bon said in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter that his band, Duran Duran, was a part of the demise of the record industry. “We were part of the demise of the old-fashioned record industry,” he said, according to ShowbizSpy.com.
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Fewer reporters killed, more kidnapped in 2010
A total of 57 journalists were killed while working in 2010, down from 76 last year, but kidnappings of reporters surged, media rights group Reporters Without Borders said on Thursday.
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Powerball, radio royalties and the severed foot: Whatever happened to … ?
The Plain Dealer catches up with local stories published in 2010 in a year-end series of “Whatever happened to . . . ?” articles running through Jan. 4. Today, musicians Sam Moore and Mickey Dolenz might have benefitted if an agreement on royalties from radio stations had arrived in Washington.
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