Posts Tagged ‘George Michael’

I was very lucky to see George Michael on Friday night, something I had looked forward to for many months. I hoped it was going to be fabulous, that it would live up to all the moments that I had played his songs through the milestones of my youth and my not so youth. It was beyond fabulous.

Now this may seem a strange blog topic, not very businessy on the surface. But while I was standing and clapping and singing and going nuts along with the thousands of others, I began to think about his market. I know it sounds as if I should have been too busy to think, but I guess I can’t help myself. I looked at this lone man on stage - yes he had back up singers & a band, but they were not the focus. They were behind and away from him. It was all about him, and so it should be, but it also meant that he was going to sink or swim alone. That the satisfaction of his customers depended solely on his delivery of his product. Success or failure was on George Michael. No gizmos, no half naked troupe. Just him and his history. And the fact that the market had just been shredding Whitney, we would not have been shy on our verdict about him. Does a successful past automatically give you a successful present? Not if your name is Whitney. Read the rest of this entry »