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Post by BSJ on Dec 31, 2018 23:43:51 GMT
Sigh, her black heart is one of the things I love most about BSJ Learned from the best, I did! Love you too, me darlin'.
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Post by StrangeMagic on Jan 1, 2019 3:06:13 GMT
. There is a great deal more to this story. Don Arden manipulated record sales so that he could misrepresent profits to Bev and Jeff and cheat them out of revenue. In one scam, Don recalled copies of an album, Eldorado, perhaps--sorry my memory is tricking me--as defective, and resold them in the cutout bin. Cutouts didn't get counted as record sales in those days because to count for RIAA purposes, records had to be sold above a certain price point. Since the sales figures weren't reported, it was much easier for Don to skim off the top and hide the money from Bev and Jeff. Only one of the many reasons we'll never know how many records ELO really sold.
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Post by unomusette on Jan 1, 2019 20:36:49 GMT
I'm just about to hit that bit in Sharon Osbourne's book I think - Jeff has just come round to see her and said he thinks Don is stealing from the band. Sharon has recently also discovered her father was not quite the honourable man she thought he was with regards to his marriage so the manipulation of record sales could well be part of what's about to be revealed. Sharon's reaction when she discovered her father was keeping a serious mistress is hilarious - you'll have to read the book though to find out
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Post by janne on Jan 2, 2019 10:34:37 GMT
I would say Sharon's business acumen actually lifted ELO to great heights. And the article is a great read.
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Post by Helmut83 on Jan 2, 2019 16:30:57 GMT
Sigh, her black heart is one of the things I love most about BSJ I also love her black heart, but my green money too, so give it back to me!
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Post by unomusette on Jan 2, 2019 19:29:59 GMT
I expect it's been carefully invested by now (probably in a Swiss bank account, if I know me ninja twin as well as I think I do)
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Post by Helmut83 on Jan 2, 2019 19:59:54 GMT
Don't worry, you can always put your Swiss investments to my name.
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Post by BSJ on Jan 2, 2019 23:22:11 GMT
Sigh, her black heart is one of the things I love most about BSJ I also love her black heart, but my green money too, so give it back to me! No
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Post by Chippa on Jan 3, 2019 4:59:59 GMT
In a recent interview on Steve Jones' radio show, Sharon spoke briefly about Jeff coming to her with the information that Don had ripped him off...
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Post by moon on Jan 13, 2019 1:05:02 GMT
A very very interesting article, thanks for share!! That Don Arden was a very special guy for what I know now that I discovered more about the story of the band... It's a pity the article don't touch the Discovery/Time/Secret Messages/Balance of Power days, but it's great to know more about the first days of the band, or the days since El Dorado. Hahaha poor Mel, I didn't know it! He was on the band and he had no idea!!! A great story to remember
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