Category: Interviews

TV toons score a big hit for new record company

Jae-Ha Kim

Steven Gottlieb could very well have become a successful Wall Street lawyer. Instead, Gottlieb, educated at Yale and Harvard Law School, founded a record company. But lest you think a new Madonna might be discovered on his label, let’s get the facts straight: The first and only album released on TeeVee Toons is last winter’s successful “Television’s Greatest Hits,” a two-record compilation of 65 themes from American television.  More than 300,000 copies were sold in the United States, it went gold in Australia and it hit No. 18 on the charts in Japan.

Britons want U.S. to take the Cure – Rock group courts American audience

Jae-Ha Kim

Wherever the band goes, other members of the Cure tend to get overshadowed by the group’s vocalist, Robert Smith, who has been called the thinking man’s pinup. Smith looks like a dark version of Boy George. But Tolhurst said that he and fellow members Simon Gallup (bass), Porl Thompson (keyboards) and Boris Williams (drums) prefer to let Smith handle most of the media work.