40 years!

[observer]

since the Beatles Abbey Road ! A TV prog with various "old" artists singing songs from the LP, with Cilla before her nose job, Sandie Shaw looking dated; Joe Cocker, the Carpenters and Nana Mouscori not looking dated - wonder how they'd manage in these days of the X factor?

[inky pete]

Over 40 years since Status Quo's first top ten hit (Pictures of Matchstick Men, 1968)

 

And they're still rocking!

[Mary]

And I still love that song!

 

To answer your question Observer I think that any band that was good back then would do fine because they start together going to gigs until more and moe people like them and then they make records. We still have plenty of artists do this today. Not everythin g that is out is Hollywoodized.

 

Either way an artist goes it will be tough - like all things, to be very good at something it takes hard work.

[Peter T]

 

Either way an artist goes it will be tough - like all things, to be very good at something it takes hard work.

 

Like sex, drugs and rock and roll?

[Jerry]

I disagree, Mary. Hard work gets you an early grave. Success takes public relations promotions and television. In the 60s we still had PAYOLA to get a new sound out in front of the masses.

 

OK, so the Beatles put in a year in Hamburg learning to play their instruments, still without that first promoter guy who died young, who had a crush on John, they might not have gotten any exposure outside of Liverpool.

[Jerry]

Ooops. Sorry, Mary. Your quote was 'to be be good at something it takes hard work'. I thought you were saying to be a successful artist takes hard work. You are correct -- to be good at something takes hard work. But....