Originally Posted by
milven
Carlo, I just watched the Vlad TV interview. It was a good supplement to the documentary. Fab is a very likeable person. At the end of the interview, Fab gave good advice to up and coming artists telling them not to sign contracts without the advice and consent of a lawyer because the record industry has a history of corruption and cheating its artists and probably always will.
Artists have been ripped off for over eighty years in this industry in one way or another. Even Sinatra got ripped off.
Sinatra had a lot of trouble getting out of his contract with Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. He signed a three-year deal with Dorsey in 1940 for something like a hundred dollars a week. but the contract also stated that Sinatra had to pay almost half of his earnings to Dorsey and his agent for the rest of his life. Sinatra soon became more popular than Dorsey and wanted to pursue a solo career, but Dorsey refused to let him go. Sinatra eventually managed to break free from the contract. The exact details of how he broke away are still unclear and disputed. Sinatra himself never liked to talk about it and denied that he had any involvement with the mob.
I would love to see a documentary about the underside of the music industry
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