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As an artist, I objected to streaming for many reasons. […] With streaming, the person who wrote the song gets paid, but those who performed on the record get very little or nothing. The digital age has made it possible to cut out the original artists from the profit chain. With that happening, there really was no reason for artists to try to create music if they couldn’t make a living from it.
The industry’s answer to the artists’ loss of revenue was for the artists to make their living by just doing live performances. That was Silicon Valley’s answer, too. We’re giving away your music, taking away your income from selling your recordings, but you can make a living by playing live. In 2017, the artists who actually created the music got just 12 percent of the music industry’s $43 billion in revenue. This is the new age of digital music.

– Neil Young

The facts:

1969 made-for-TV film by Jean-Luc Godard.
The voice-overs are largely adapted from the Communist Manifesto.
Godard claimed that the “news presenter” text was adapted from speeches by contemporary politicians.
The “feminist” text is written and recited by Sheila Rowbotham.
Some of the Essex students shown went on to form the Angry Brigade.
The arm at the end is Godard’s own. Even though it looks fake, the blood is real.
London Weekend Television inevitably refused to show it.

“The film has the stiff and self-punishing feel of a cinematic hair-shirt” – Richard Brody

Talking about a series of five made-for-TV films made by Godard at this time—of which British Sounds is the first—Colin MacCabe has written:

“Considered as conventional documentaries they are unwatchable; considered as experiments in sound and image they contain lessons even more relevant today than when they were made.”

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