History TroubledProduction / Music

* As the sections on the Music/HappyMondays album ''Yes Please!'' and the various Music/NewOrder albums can attest to, legendary Manchester label Creator/FactoryRecords fits this bill. While there is no denying the influence the label had on post-punk in the late '70s into the early '80s through Music/JoyDivision and Music/NewOrder, or their integral part as a hub for the "Madchester" scene through their nightclub The Haçienda, the label was notoriously bad with money, there were no formal contracts with their bands in the early years, and The Haçienda's clientele mostly took {=MDMA=} instead of buying alcohol at the bar, which further drained Factory's accounts. In spite of their successes and influence, it is generally believed that Factory Records was never profitable during its lifetime, and the label lasted for less than fifteen years before going bankrupt in 1992.

* As the sections on the Music/HappyMondays album ''Yes Please!'' and the various Music/NewOrder albums can attest to, legendary Manchester label Creator/FactoryRecords fits this bill. While there is no denying the influence the label had on post-punk in the late '70s into the early '80s through Music/JoyDivision and Music/NewOrder, or their integral part as a hub for the "Madchester" scene through their nightclub The Haçienda, the label was notoriously bad with money, there were no formal contracts with their bands in the early years, and The Haçienda's clientele mostly took {{MDMA}} instead of buying alcohol at the bar, which further drained Factory's accounts. In spite of their successes and influence, it is generally believed that Factory Records was never profitable during its lifetime, and the label lasted for less than fifteen years before going bankrupt in 1992.

* "Humans Being", from the soundtrack to ''Film/{{Twister}}'', nearly destroyed Music/VanHalen. The first half of 1996 was meant to put the band on a break, with the Van Halen brothers Eddie and Alex needing surgery and Sammy Hagar's wife about to have his third child. However, manager Ray Danniels convinced them that contributing to the ''Twister'' soundtrack would pay them enough to get through the rest of that year.\\\
Sammy and Eddie wrote two songs, "Between Us Two" and "The Silent Extreme". The songs were recorded, but before he could return to his wife Kari in Maui, Eddie called him back and informed him that "Between Us Two" wouldn't be used. Alex renamed "The Silent Extreme" to "Humans Being", while Sammy argued with the Van Halen brothers over lyrics[[note]]At one point he learned they'd brought in a friend of his to write new lyrics, telling him (falsely, according to Sammy) that Sammy didn't like his existing lyrics[[/note]] and flew back and forth between home and work -- so often that he moved to San Francisco against Kari's wishes to deliver the baby.\\\
At one point, the lack of compromise angered Sammy so badly that he and producer Bruce Fairbairn rewrote their lyrics in 15 minutes ''on the hood of a car'', recorded his vocals in less than 2 hours, and stormed out. Ultimately, Sammy quit Van Halen due to the Van Halen brothers's prima-donna tendencies. All of this is detailed in a particularly ugly interview from the [[http://www.vhlinks.com/pages/interviews/sh/gw0497.php April 1997 edition of Guitar World]], which suggests the issues went as far back as 1994 with issues rising up from a greatest hits package of Sammy's solo work.

Besides Keith, the only other Polydor/A&M Nashville acts who didn't disappear entirely were Wright (who went on to have a few hits on Creator/{{MCA}} later in the decade) and the Moffatts (who had a few pop hits on Creator/CapitolRecords in their native Canada; much later on, lead vocalist Scott Moffatt would become Music/LukeCombs' RecordProducer), while Comeaux [[AuthorExistenceFailure died in a car accident]] before she could sign to another label. A 1996 article in ''Billboard'' pointed out that the failure of Polydor/A&M Nashville was due to Keith not yet being strong enough to serve as a flagship artist, combined with a surplus of new upstart labels that left too few people qualified for executive and promotional roles.

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* TroubledProduction/MusicConcertsToursAndFestivals
* [[TroubledProduction/TheJacksonFive The Jacksons' Victory Tour]]
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