He's happy with what has become of La Giaconda, originally a cafe where David Bowie and scores of other stars and dreamers used to hang out and now a restaurant, but he hates the thinning out of the guitar and other instrument shops and what he says is an ongoing exodus of the sorts of people who've made the London music industry sing.
This year the Big Wigs are wearing wigs as the cream of the TV industry's singing talent go through the smoky doors to perform as their musical idols.
Williams was one of many in the entertainment industry who sang her praises, and spoke of Marshall with personal affection.
Speaking about the record industry, she sings about being bored with labels during the lines, "All the shit I do is boring / All these record labels... boring".
To help fight famine in Africa, he wanted them to write a song for the most famous artists in the music industry to sing together.
The tourism industry is also singing a happy tune after benefiting from the flood of Alabama and Notre Dame fans during the past week.
C'est avec une profonde tristesse que nous vous annonçons que René Angélil, 73 ans, est décédé ce matin à sa résidence... Angélil got his start in the music industry in the 1960s singing with the Montréal pop group, "The Baronets," before going on to manage artists in the 1970s.
While some talent agents work for full-service talent agencies and may represent a broad range of clients, most talent agents specialize in only a few areas of the entertainment industry, such as acting, singing or modeling.
"Bringing the story up to date" means, of course, incorporating the fact that there's no north-eastern mining industry left to sing about.
"Here we are revisiting a time, a place, a whole industry," Mr. Aubert sang in "Well Thought Out Twinkles," starting the set.
