{"id":720,"date":"2019-08-22T10:44:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T10:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/the-universal-fire-and-a-new-believe-cover\/"},"modified":"2023-02-20T08:16:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T15:16:22","slug":"the-universal-fire-and-a-new-believe-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/2019\/08\/the-universal-fire-and-a-new-believe-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"The Universal Fire and a New Believe Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/.a\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef0240a4c77966200b-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"float: left;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pissedcher\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341d6c7753ef0240a4c77966200b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef0240a4c77966200b-400wi.png?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 400px; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Pissedcher\" \/><\/a>The UMG UGH!<\/h4>\n<p>Earlier this year the <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Universal Fire story broke and details about the huge losses by the Universal Music Group when a warehouse of master tapes in Los Angeles caught fire and were destroyed. And then they covered it up.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here is the New York Times coverage:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/06\/11\/magazine\/universal-fire-master-recordings.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/06\/11\/magazine\/universal-fire-master-recordings.html<\/a><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/06\/25\/magazine\/universal-music-fire-bands-list-umg.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/06\/25\/magazine\/universal-music-fire-bands-list-umg.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This story brings up whole new slate of debates about the value of d<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">igitalization and problems with authorship, corporate c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">onsolidation, corporate bullying and the tragic danger of having too much intellectual property in one physical location.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#39;s a c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ultural loss on a huge scale with original masters lost from artist such as Billie Holliday, Johnny Coltraine and Martin Luther King, but also on a very small specific scale for individual artists and their fans.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anyway, Cher&#39;s name was mentioned a lot. Many, by no means all, of her many labels were long ago consumed into Universal Music Group, only to be consumed once again.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was making the case to my music-biz-scholar friend Christopher that curation of large cultural holdings, even if you&#39;re a private entity, should come with extra responsibilities such as a museum, (even a private one) would be pressured to adhere to.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I remember one phone call about 10 years ago where he rattled off all the major music label conglomerations off the top of his head! I asked him to reiterate the tangle for me again here and forensically trace the behemoth that has become United Music Group and which labels it has swallowed up. This would be another way to figure out which Cher albums might have been affected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But sadly, we are beyond such quaint displays of memory. Instead, he simply just sent me <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/includes\/3\/daily\/vulture\/2015\/09\/music-timeline.html#_ga=2.102453638.669540944.1566079838-1558861271.1566079838\">this link<\/a>. It&#39;s a graphic of all the consolidations and it&#39;s so goddamn big, it&#39;s unprintable!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/.a\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef0240a4c77ab2200b-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mess\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341d6c7753ef0240a4c77ab2200b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef0240a4c77ab2200b-200wi.png?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 200px; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Mess\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Christopher&#39;s comments:<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>It truly is shocking. &#0160;Not the fire, per se, but their slimy way of keeping the news from the artists for over a decade! &#0160; Although, I should probably say it is shocking&#8230;but not surprising. &#0160;I harbor such distrust of corporations; their ranks seems always to be filled with individuals who pass the buck to someone else when accountability enters the picture. &#0160;The larger the corporation, the less likely anyone is willing to take responsibility when something goes awry.<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#0160;<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Here is a great graphic that&#0160;<a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/includes\/3\/daily\/vulture\/2015\/09\/music-timeline.html#_ga=2.52351339.331433283.1561648516-1555782886.1561648516\">New York Magazine&#0160;put out a couple years back<\/a> which gives an excellent summary of the conglomeration of the music labels over the years.<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#0160;<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Personally, I think of all the major labels, UMG is the most higgledy-piggledy in terms of its roster; both Sony and Warner&#39;s various absorptions involved more organic matches\/compatibility.&#0160; All the feverish flipping that occurred in 1995-1999 between Seagram\/MCA\/Vivendi\/<span class=\"il\">Universal<\/span> may have created the largest conglomerate, but I believe it also created the most inherently unstable one.&#0160; So in some ways it makes sense that if there was going to be a disaster of this sort it should occur amid their holdings. &#0160;If the ass doesn&#39;t know the elbow, the lack of proper archiving (that is, record-keeping&#8211;aside from the lack of the materials&#39; physical safety) would appear to necessarily follow, and who knows, maybe the same could be said for their basic physical operations.<\/em><\/div>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the graphic does mostly explain where all the holdings of Cher are and she is spread out pretty wide across all the three behemoths:&#0160; &#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; At Sony Music Entertainment are holdings for Columbia (everybody breathe: the <em>I Paralyze<\/em> album is safe!)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; At <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Warner Music Group are holdings for ATCO, Reprise, Rhino (Cher\u2019s 60s output), plus her already lost albums from Warner Bros (was there a mini fire somewhere?), not including the later-day Warner Bros. UK albums.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; At Universal Music Group&#0160;<em>were&#0160;<\/em>holdings for MCA\/Kapp, Casablanca (very early 70s Cher and Sonny &amp; Cher and very late-70s Cher), and, although I can&#39;t even find it on this stupid chart, Geffen Records (Cher&#39;s 80s label). This is not great news. Some iconic stuff in there. <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/.a\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef0240a479a3cd200c-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"float: right;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Young-cher-mlk\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341d6c7753ef0240a479a3cd200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef0240a479a3cd200c-300wi.png?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 300px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Young-cher-mlk\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Still, s<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ome of the news stories mentioning Cher were somewhat humorous, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/article\/45041\/1\/cher-dolly-parton-and-hundreds-more-also-lose-tapes-in-label-fire\">this one with the angry Cher face as the lead photo<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2019\/jun\/26\/universal-warehouse-fire-neil-young-cher-martin-luther-king\">this article<\/a> with this hilarious photo by juxtaposition: implying the biggest cultural losses were Neil Young, Martin Luther King and Cher. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hey, I&#39;m the first to defend Cher&#39;s cultural impact, but&#8230;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>A New &quot;Believe&quot; Cover<\/h4>\n<p>BHuman has made a pretty decent &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newnownext.com\/bhuman-cover-cher-believe-in-new-x-files-inspired-video\/08\/2019\/?fbclid=IwAR0PbxA6uCoXhZpveujygTcfmJzRdZ9K_rtdUL9Sq21ouDbiLAK0qy4Zadg\">Believe&quot; cover<\/a>, keeping it techno-friendly but slowing it down.&#0160;<\/p>\n<h4>ABBACher 2.0<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And<a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/chart-news\/cher-to-release-a-new-album-of-abba-covers-in-2019__24892\/\"> a new Cher ABBA album<\/a> is in the works. No full set list yet but she&#39;s been talking about individual songs on her Twitter feed. My vote was for &quot;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tUh4u-lYEhM\">When All Is Said and Done<\/a>.&quot; Fingers crossed it makes it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UMG UGH! Earlier this year the Universal Fire story broke and details about the huge losses by the Universal Music Group when a warehouse of master tapes in Los Angeles caught fire and were destroyed. 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