{"id":121,"date":"2007-05-20T13:22:17","date_gmt":"2007-05-20T18:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/news\/2007\/the-500000-black-hole\/"},"modified":"2007-05-20T13:22:17","modified_gmt":"2007-05-20T18:22:17","slug":"the-500000-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/news\/2007\/the-500000-black-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u00a3500,000 “black hole”"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies<\/a>, about whom I just posted<\/a> last week, is in the news again! This time, not geese, but fraud; you can’t make this stuff up. I had forgotten, also, that he has had a website<\/a> where you can make custom mixes of his music and then get them delivered by post “\u201c a sort of classical music answer to Prince’s crazy webshop<\/a>. What’s curious about this whole fraud business is that I hadn’t ever imagined that S. P. Maxwell D. had anything close to \u00a3500,000 worth of commerce from his music. It’s great to know that he is making that much money; maybe as this drama unfolds some puckish<\/a> English journalist<\/a> will do an expos\u00e9 on where all that money came from.<\/p>\n Anybody who lives in London should definitely go see Prince live in August. I saw him in New York a few years ago and it was, without a doubt, one of the best live acts I have ever seen.<\/p>\n