What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Doing 'Malcolm and Eddie' was probably the foremost miserable years of my life.
The Beatles changed music forever. They took rock n' roll from a medium that was about cars and girls and gave it context, interesting chord changes and true musicianship.
Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs.
Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.
I think my legacy should be that when I started in show business, there wasn't no such thing as rock n' roll. When I started with 'Tutti Frutti,' that's when rock really started rocking.
Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business.
I wound up becoming an A&R man at London Records in the 1990s, during the boom of Britpop, the last great gold rush of the music industry. I saw incredible greed and terrible behaviour. I was greedy and terribly behaved.
Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.
I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.
I grew up in an era where the record companies just sold records to everybody, and the whole family bought songs.