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All the members of the planetary band stayed in the recording studio for a full month and a half, and successfully completed the [Starshine] album.

At that time, James thought narcissistically: "Some albums can make people kneel down! Twelve songs, the first classic."

This is just a thought, and it has not been tested by the market.

It was also at this time that the Mixer record company they had been cooperating with learned the news that the album was finished, and sent the former 'replacing Abel's position, as the new liaison representative of the band and the record company' Adams, to audition [Starshine ] This album.

Adams also had some relatively pleasant collaborations with them on the previous album [Planet III].

But he has a problem with the original Abel. Most of the time, the direction of thinking is more focused on the commercial level, and he doesn't pay much attention to the artistic value of music itself.

So, when he finished listening to [Starshine]'s master tape, he gave the evaluation: "The music is very good, but it sounds... It doesn't seem to be in line with the current fashion trend."

James knew right away that what he meant by 'trending' was grunge.

So, Lance explained: "This album is not grunge, it is new music with the theme of England. The whole album is about the life of our country."

"British theme? New music?"

Adams immediately hesitated, not sure whether such a record that went against the trend could stand up in terms of sales.

For a moment, he fell into a contradiction swinging left and right.

In fact, A&R producers like them hate new, experimental records that cannot judge the future development of the record.

Because these records often present them with a stressful, balding choice.

When faced with these choices, they often have to make a critical decision on behalf of the record company behind them-sign or not.

Once he chooses to sign the record, it’s okay to make money, but if he loses, it’s because he made a wrong decision and was fired;

But if you choose not to sign, it is not without risk.

Because if this missed record is promoted by another company, it is also a mistake in his decision-making and he will be fired.

Therefore, no matter whether he chooses to sign or not, he has to bear the risk of being "dismissed" alone.

As a result, the representative of the Mixer record company had difficulty making a decision for a while.

James couldn't help but glanced at Abel, who had turned into his own agent.

For the first time, he felt that this guy was quite aggressive before, at least when he was in charge of the Planetary Band, he didn't hesitate like this one.

In the end, Adams wasn't brave enough.

He made a request to Planet: "Can you do a small show first, I want to see how the music works live.

The so-called live performance effect is actually just a euphemism.

The real opposite should be to see the reaction of the audience, and then see if these new music that is different from the trend can be accepted by the audience. At the same time, it is also based on the reaction of the audience to see how much the future sales potential of the album can be. .

After James and Lance looked at each other, they didn't answer immediately.

Abel stood up at the right time: "Sorry, the performance may have to be postponed for a while, and the band has some business activities recently..."

Adams didn't know that this was an excuse, so he agreed without thinking too much.

After he left, Abel immediately reminded: "We are not in a hurry to sign the contract. According to the original plan, we will wait for a while to see who bids higher."

James and the others nodded.

Then, Able added: "Of course, if Mixer's bid is relatively high, I still suggest to try to choose Mixer Records. After all, we have cooperated for many years, and I am more familiar with their operation mode."

James and Lance had no problem with that.

In the past few years, the steady flow of money and increasing value in their bank accounts have already fully proved Abel's reliability and ability in business operations.

As for why Abel said 'after a while, see which bid is higher', James and Lance also know it well.

This is of course because...

They have planned for a long time a large-scale [Focus on England] event, which is about to officially kick off.

As previously discussed, [Crossroads] magazine took the lead in making a special issue titled "Our British Band".

In this issue of the magazine, the planetary band once again appeared on the cover of the magazine, and the dresses of the four members are very different from the previous ones.

James no longer wears women's clothing; Baldwin no longer wears those too baggy clothes;

They put on British-style clothing, restrained lines, seemingly calm and simple styles, simple to cool, only through details and unique collocations to subtly show the British personality, and then through a little bright colors Embellishments, such as a bouquet of bright red roses in the hands of James standing at the front, are just right to hint at the hidden rebellious nature of the rock band.

Regular readers might just notice how handsome and good-looking the members of the band Planet are on the cover.

But countless musicians have vaguely guessed the main content of this issue from the cover.

Sure enough, the magazine introduced one by one the "British bands" belonging to the British music scene, among which, many places were very subtly written that this is "our band".

That's right, this is the 'public roll call' that James and Abel came up with.

In this public roll call, in addition to the instigator of the Planetary Band, the Dancing Sculpture Band is also indispensable. After that, there are also the Clown Band, the Urchin Band, and the Beach Boys. There are almost ten bands in total.

Although in terms of fame, there is a big gap between these bands.

But in the provocative introduction of the magazine, they are obviously regarded as the iconic bands of the British music scene without discrimination, and they have high hopes for them, hoping that they can show the charm of England in the next music creation.

Except for Stewart who was very pleasantly surprised, he kept saying to his teammates excitedly: "Look, our efforts are not in vain, we are not alone, and some people have also noticed the decline of British music, we have like-minded people. "

But the other bands who were 'named' were all collectively confused.

They are completely at a loss: "What's going on? What's going on? [Crossroads] What kind of madness is this? Is it trying to get the ducks on the shelves? When did we say we were going to create some British music? How did it become British? Are you a representative of the music scene? Besides, what are you saying...we don’t deserve to be a British band if we don’t show the charm of England?”

During this period, the speed of information transmission was not so fast, and the channels for people to obtain information were single.

Most of the band's self-contained fan base found that these bands appeared in magazines and collectively expressed their attitude of "reviving England" (other bands: I'm not, I didn't talk nonsense), they had no doubts at all, and immediately said Believe it, and in order to help the bands I like, intentionally or unintentionally, I also started to spread the type of British music.

Abel seized the moment and put his connections to good use.

Soon, taking advantage of this momentum, I contacted several newspapers and magazines, and began to repeatedly promote the concept of British music.

Wave after wave, after the big media reports...

Some gossip tabloids were also misled by it, thinking it was hot news, and followed suit for a while.

In addition, most of the fans of each band are also scrambling to discuss.

In the age when the Internet was not particularly developed, a false prosperity was successfully created by deception.

Even though the vast majority of people at that time did not have much recognition for the British concept, not many people were as concerned about the country and the people as Stuart was aware of the importance of British music...

However, under the continuous propaganda of this false prosperity, more people also began to follow the trend and think: Hey, the music of the British concept is about to rise?

Stuart couldn't be happier.

He thought that the next thing would be a beautiful scene of a hundred flowers blooming in the British music scene.

But in fact, apart from "Beautiful England" whose dancing sculptures have already hit the street, and the Planetary Band, which has been premeditated, no band has seriously produced any British creations.

And, if there are no quality masterpieces, the false prosperity will become false after all.

External means are very important.

But all external means have progressed to the later stage, but they still need to rely on real strength to support them.

Planet's new album is just for that.

After nearly three or four months of intense promotion and publicity, after attracting the attention of most British people to British music, they finally waited for their most suitable time to appear!

Lance couldn't help shaking his hands nervously these days: "Jimmy, are you ready?"

Every time James couldn't resist his strong yet occasional fragility, he held his hand immediately before replying affirmatively: "Ready.

——Why are you not nervous?What if you fail to engage in such a big business?

——Failure, it’s okay.Then go home and line up to receive unemployment benefits, I'm afraid of a bird!