For example Britney Spears gets goggled 500,000 a minute. Pepsi gave each of these stars a million dollars to be a part of their commercial which is only forty five seconds. Another example is the magazine industry will pay millions to either get pregnant stars baby pictures or for a star to tell about a sad time in their lives. In many societies through time the poor worshiped the wealthy. Americans are obsessed with living like the house wives of Atlanta and the Kardashians.
At the age 20 Richard started company named ‘Virgin’, which was operated with the mail. At the age 22 Richard opened company called ‘Virgin Records’, one of the first artists which sing with ‘Virgin Record’ was Mike Oldfield, he sold more than 5 million copies of single. Later on there was many other artist which sing with ‘Virgin Record’, for example Sex Pistol, Janet Jackson and Rolling Stones and may other singers and bands. At the age 34 Richard decide start business which is more serious. He moved into airline industry, starting ‘Virgin Atlantic Airways’, which become second biggest English haul in international airline, which had flights to New York, Miami, Los Angeles and Orland and many others international cities.
During the 1960’s most of the airtime on the family household was devoted to music and rock & roll was the most popular genre. The Beatles, Elvis, Smokey Robinson and Jimi Hendrix were taking over the radio’s and the Aussies couldn’t get enough of these rock stars. This type of music was aimed at teenagers and young adults and opened the eyes of many teenagers around Australia. When the Barbie doll was released in America and was going to be brought over here they said in the add on TV about how many people are buying them in America making them an instant hit because the Americans like it. The same thing happened with slot cars once Australia kids heard that Americans like them they were a hit here too.
Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was released. It was known for its range of styles and sounds, a mix of pop and electronic noises; songs like “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” and “A Day in the Life.” Many of the songs on the album were carefully examined for hidden “clues” about The Beatles use of drugs. This album spent 15 weeks at number one, and sold over 8 million copies. On June 25th, 1967, The Beatles recorded “All You Need Is Love,” with a live television audience of 400 million, part of the Our World broadcast. Later that year, while The Beatles were in Wales beginning their six month involvement with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Brian Epstein died of an accidental overdose on his prescribed sleeping pills, Carbitral.
Their producer, George Martin helped Brian Espstein push this group, dubbed the “Fab Four” toward international stardom by 1964. The Beetles were the first of the British Invasion of rock artists to the USA, and to date, the biggest sellers of British pop music. They toured for 3 years, and are thought to be the globe’s biggest influence on pop-rock music. They were also the most lucrative performers of all time. The Beetle-mania sensation lead the record sales up the charts, with over a billion sold in the UK, and today, have sold 177 million more records in the USA than any other
This act raised the drinking age to 21 for all 50 states and was huge step for lowering the damage caused by drunk driving. By the end of the year MADD had reached 330 chapters nationwide while helping pass over 129 laws against drunk driving. Not only did MADD make the most successful pushes for anti-drinking laws in last century but they remained true to why the organization was formed in the first place, to comfort victims of the crime. In Kentucky of 1988 the nation watched as a drunk driver took the lives of 41 children and 3 adults, while injuring 30 more. The driver had slammed head on with a bus returning from a church outing.
By the mid-1950s, R&B began to gain major traction as the popularity of the radio began to surge. “By 1959, 156 million radios were in working order” (15). Many white teens went out of their way to find R&B records. Altchuler, however suggests, that Evans’ and Miller’s optimism was
After the trial, the anti-payola statute was passed under which payola became a misdemeanor, penalty by up to $10,000 in fines and one year in prison. Getting radio play would allow the songs to reach its expected audience and help launch the artist’s career. This practice also helped small and independent labels break the stronghold of the music industry by major labels. To better understand what was behind the Payola scandal in the 1950’s, let me discuss a little history about the radio industry. In the 1930’s and 1940’s, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) thrived on the sales of sheet music and recordings of Tin Pan Alley songs, the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the U.S. at the time, but the creation of radio in the 1940’s was geared toward recorded music and things started to change in the industry.
Regardless of the income disparity, economic dislocation and social downgrading, the tobacco companies unconscionably continue to exploit this group for decades. The tobacco industry has used unreasonably marketing tactics to lure society’s most vulnerable. Tobacco companies sponsored game shows and cartoons, and cigarette ads featured endorsements from doctors, dentists and celebrities. which results in approximately 70 percent of all homeless individuals hooked on the dangerous habit of smoking; 4 times that of the general U.S. population and 2.5 times that among impoverished Americans, according to the Public Health Law Center. The Homeless who is categorically burdened by some form of mental illness has been blatantly targeted for decades as industry leaders donates cigarettes to homeless shelters and other facilities where this group frequents.
In the 1840s, Esther A. Howland began to sell the first mass-produced valentines. Today, an estimated one billion valentine cards are sent each year, making Valentine's Day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year after Christmas. Women purchase approximately 85 percent of all valentines. When you grumble on this day, just think that Valentine had scarified his life doing a good deed for