Rocker Jon Bon Jovi told The Sunday Times Magazine that 'Steve Jobs is personally responsible for killing the music business' in a recently published interview.
"Kids today have missed the whole experience of putting the headphones on, turning it up to 10, holding the jacket, closing their eyes and getting lost in an album; and the beauty of taking your allowance money and making a decision based on the jacket, not knowing what the record sounded like, and looking at a couple of still pictures and imagining it. God, it was a magical, magical time. I hate to sound like an old man now, but I am, and you mark my words, in a generation from now people are going to say: 'What happened?'. Steve Jobs is personally responsible for killing the music business."
One could argue the exact opposite in fact. iTunes lets many musicians get their music out to the world who otherwise wouldn't have had the means to do so.
Interestingly, CultofMac notes that Bon Jovi sits on the White House Council for Community Solutions with Jobs’ wife, Laurene Powell Jobs. Think she'll have a few words for him?
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Flobadob - March 15, 2011 at 9:23am
I'm not sure if it applies but I'm sure there was something years ago that stated 'video killed the radio star'. Maybe Bon Jovi should start looking there.
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1000101 - March 15, 2011 at 6:41pm
LOL, yea that point does apply
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Dicktracy - March 15, 2011 at 12:51am
Musician Emily Bear was only 11 years old.
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1000101 - March 15, 2011 at 1:45am
Ahhh I stand corrected
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Joe Cole - March 15, 2011 at 3:47am
@ 1000101 & Dicktracy, do you guys mean 'Emily Bear'? If so, she's awesome.
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Emad - March 14, 2011 at 9:52pm
The music industry is not dead. It's just evolving as everything else.
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Carlito - March 14, 2011 at 8:00pm
Jobs didn't kill the music industry. So-called musicians who make lollipop music and music that sounds like everything else out there is what killed it.
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namedb - March 14, 2011 at 9:35pm
I agree with you! I hate hip hop and all its kind...
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iPhonedo - March 14, 2011 at 5:49pm
No need to defend Apple, but if iTunes didn't get into the music business, people would be downloading music illegally. And I think that would have been worse. In some countries, record labels pay the pirates to have their music because it reaches a wide audience. That's what's up in the rest of the world while one of the biggest rockstars ever finally aged and doesn't know where to attack because he doesn't get the new lifestyle.
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nun - March 16, 2011 at 1:42am
But people still downloading illegally. LOL!
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David - March 14, 2011 at 5:34pm
Guess he doesn't remember that there were many MP3 players before the iPod and the free pirating pioneered by Napstet.
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Mey - March 14, 2011 at 5:33pm
Bon Jovi has been selected as one of the best rock singers in the world and sits on the White House Council for Community Solutions with Steve Jobs' wife. I don't think disrespectful comments are necessary; the music industry has changed, and everyone deserves respect.
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Nick p - March 14, 2011 at 5:23pm
I disagree with that. Most albums only have two good tracks, so the solution is to make better albums rather than blaming technology.
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Mey - March 14, 2011 at 5:14pm
I don't think that those disrespectful comments about the great Bon Jovi are fair to him and his music. Nevertheless, I agree that Apple is good for this generation as well.
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