JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE – Rock Era Magazine https://rockeramagazine.com The Risa of a New Era! Wed, 01 Oct 2025 15:06:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 Pink Floyd strikes a deal with Sony to sell their music catalog for $400 million https://rockeramagazine.com/pink-floyd-sony-400m/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 17:50:25 +0000 https://www.rockeramagazine.com/?p=42242

Pink Floyd has reportedly reached a deal with Sony to sell their music catalog, as well as their name and likeness, for about $400m.

The British rock band agreed to sell the rights to their recorded music catalog, their name and their likeness, but not the rights to their songwriting, according to the Financial Times, who first reported the news of the deal on Tuesday, citing two people familiar with the matter.

The agreement, described by Variety on Wednesday as “one of the largest of many in recent years”, comes after years of reported feuding and infighting between the surviving band members over the sale details, as well as about controversial comments made by the band’s co-founder and bassist, Roger Waters, which also reportedly complicated the deal process.

Last month, Variety reported that Pink Floyd and Sony were working on a deal.

As of Wednesday morning, Sony had not released a statement or responded to a comment on the reported deal, according to the Financial Times. David Gilmour, the band’s guitarist, had also not responded to a request for comment, and Waters could not be reached.

In 2022, Variety reported that Pink Floyd had been looking to sell their recorded music and other assets for as much as $500m. Sources told the outlet that some potential buyers were put off after a 2022 interview with Waters in Rolling Stone, in which he made controversial comments about Israel, Ukraine, Russia and the United States.

Sony Music reportedly in talks to buy Queen’s music catalogue for $1bn. Read more.

Among the statements, Waters has said that Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine was “not unprovoked”. Russia invited Waters to address the UN security council in early 2023, where he repeated the claim.

Four sources claimed in March of 2023 to Variety that the band’s $500m catalog sale of the rights was “basically dead” due to conflicts between the surviving band members. But, sources close to the band at the time denied this claim.

Later that year, Waters was investigated by Berlin police over a Nazi-style uniform he wore at a concert there. In the same year, he won a legal battle allowing him to perform a concert in Frankfurt, Germany, after the city attempted to cancel the event amid accusations of antisemitism.

The city called Waters “one of the most widely known antisemites in the world” and reportedly objected to his concert in part due to the fact that a previous tour had featured a balloon shaped like a pig depicting the star of David and various company logos, as a part of the stage show.

Waters has always denied accusations of antisemitism.

In early 2024, it was reported that Waters was dropped as a solo artist by the music rights company BMG, which signed an agreement with the musician in 2016, over his comments about Israel, Ukraine and the US.

Pink Floyd’s recorded music catalog is one of the most valuable in contemporary music, according to Variety. The band’s most famous albums include The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and more.

Over the last few years, other high-profile artists including Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Justin Timberlake, Shakira, the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and others have sold their music catalogs to different music labels. Earlier this year, it was reported that Sony was in talks to buy Queen’s catalog.

Source: The Guardian

]]> 10 Record Producers You Should Know! https://rockeramagazine.com/record-producers/ Sat, 24 May 2014 11:31:39 +0000 https://www.rockeramagazine.com/10-producers-you-should-know/ Until now the Middle East is not really familiar with this term and defines it only as the project’s pocket money for a commercial success, and that term also goes very well in the Egyptian cinema production. When it comes to music. Some of the Egyptian independent artists- and Arabs too – now care about this issue and work on it.

Regardless, we will have another list for that; but for now, let’s discover more about people who really helped in modern music development, and worked with international artists and bands that we know and adore their hits. However, 50% of their success returns to their producers. Let’s know those music market masters…

Jimmy Page

Many people know him as the lead guitarist of the legendary classic rock band Led Zeppelin. Actually, the reason that Page created the band was his love to record production as well as putting new recording techniques, which became his legacy that was followed by music makers afterwards. Page spent hours and hours in the studio just trying to record techniques as well as observing the different points and changing microphones access, amplifier and trying new sounds and sometimes creating sound effects! Jimmy Page mainly produced for Led Zeppelin, The Firm and Screaming Lord Sutch bands. In addition, several side projects, one of them was Puff Daddy’s hit ‘Come With Me’.

 

Rick Rubin 

One of the wide known names in Europe and States. This artists didn’t work on a specific genre; he just knew how to get the right tunes for an artist and deliver it to the audience. I guess there’s few of the music industry that Rubin didn’t work with. Yes, any international artist/band you know you will find his name behind them. Some of these are: Johnny Cash, Metallica, Slayer, Black Sabbath, Slayer, RHCP, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Limp Bizkit, SOAD, The Cult, Neil Diamond, Mick Jagger, ZZ Top, Audioslave, Rage Against The Machine Danzig, Kid Rock, Sheryl Crow. Away from rock music, he worked with Adele, Justin Timberlake, Shakira, Public Enemy, Eminem, Lady Gaga and many more…

 

Bob Rock

Bob is considered to be the man behind the success of Metallica. Yes, Bob was actually the main reason of letting some of Metallica’s riffs reach the fans in a proper sound and song structure. And that was so obvious in ‘A Year and Half in the Life of Metallica’; the documentary film that was made for the recording production for Metallica: ‘Black Album’ shows him giving instructions to the band and sometimes guiding, even arguing with them to work hard and get it right. In addition, he worked with Aerosmith, Motley Crue, The Cult, David Lee Roth, Bon Jovi, Cher, Skid Row, Bryan Adams, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Michael Buble, and The Offspring. Besides, he is a well-known audio engineer, so he worked with Survivor, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and many else.

Quincy Jones 

Quincy Jones is considered as the most famous music producer on Earth! Jones started as a producer in the early 50s and was a well-known for his work with the King of Pop Michael Jackson, as well as, Little Richard, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Frank Sinatra, Samuel George – a.k.a Sammy Davis, Jr. – Aretha Franklin, Eddie Van Halen, Will Smith, 2Pac, Ray Charles and hundreds! Besides, he was the producer, composer and conductor of many international hits such as ‘We Are the World’ and ‘Bokra’ – Tomorrow (A Better You, Better Me with many Arab artists such as; Shakira, Tamer Hosny, Souad Massi, Marawan Khoury, Latifa, Diana Karazon, and the American hip hop artist Akon. The song was written by Magda Al-Roumi.

Paul O’Neill

For you, who don’t know Paul, he is one of the responsible of creating the genre of progressive metal. O’Neill started as an engineer and worked with many international acts, such as; Aerosmith, Joan Jett, Def Leppard and others. In the 80s, he became the number one promoter for shows in Japan and promoting every tour of Madonna and Sting. The real change happened was with Savatage, which was when he changed the whole concept of the band from just a heavy metal band to become the first influential progressive metal band as well as his other orchestral works with same band members and other musicians in the ranked #1rock orchestra, Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

Tony Platt 

Tony is one of the greatest English sound engineers and record producers. His resume could talk better than we do. Some of his notable works were with; Bob Marley, Buddy Guy, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Gary Moore, Johnny Cash, Samson, Manowar, Celtic Frost, Ronnie James Dio and Anathema.

Dieter Dierks

Most known as the owner of one the best international studios, Dierks Studios (audio and video studios), and the producer for the legendary band Scorpions. Many international artists worked and record there, such as; Michael Jackson, Accpet, Tina Turner, and many others.

R. Kelly 

This could be a name that many readers weren’t expecting in such a list, but this awesome composer, song-writer, arranger, mixer and record producer should be mentioned also. Kelly worked with numerous artists as a producer since the early 90s till now, and he was even the main reason behind many international artists production besides the younger ones. He produced for Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Toni Braxton, Aaliyah, Billy Ocean, Celine Dion, Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Whitney Huston and many else.

Mike Clink

Well, he is a man with not much of a resume but no one can deny he was one of the developers of the hard rock/heavy metal movement. He started as an audio engineer – like many other producers – in the 80s and then found his interest in record production. Clink produced for Gun N’ Roses, Triumph, Motley Crue, Megadeth, UFO, Jefferson Starship, Heart and many others.

Roy Thomas Baker

Baker isn’t only a music producer but he is also a songwriter, arranger and the governor of The Recording Academy – the U.S. organization of musicians, producers and audio engineers. His notable productions were for many legendary bands, such as: Queen, Yes, Jet, Nazareth, Free, Journey, Chris de Burgh, Ozzy Osbourne, Guns N’ Roses as well as motion pictures soundtracks for Heavy Metal in 1982 and American Anthem in 1986.

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