Cell phone could be music's savior: Jones
A day after announcing that he would compose the theme song for the Shanghai 2010 World Expo, legendary music producer Quincy Jones promised yesterday to save the crumbling global record industry - starting in China.
"We are going to reinvent the record business, in China, because it's dead," the 76-year-old producer of Michael Jackson's Thriller, which has sold over 100 million copies worldwide, told China Daily yesterday evening at his Shanghai hotel room.
"Not might, we are going to. I don't know how long it will take, but we've got to do it quicker than in the next decade. Yi bu, Yi bu (step by step). We need the music industry. It's already collapsed. The American music business went down $22 billion last year, 44 percent, man. The whole Middle East is a joke, the world is a joke.
