I doubt that it's anything to do with his opinion on the BBC. What might that be? The BBC is non-commercial company, something that I imagine he'd support
A degree of interest to mull - how many other artists would be ruled out by the BBC must-show-in-full clause that is (seemingly) the stumbling block for Neil Young?
If that was a clause stuck in during the pandemic, might figure that Taylor Swift could have balked at that, for example.
Think a plethora of your American mega-pop acts - Gaga, Beyonce, Rihanna - would also balk at the request, along with a few of the older rock acts. Not sure Springsteen would consent to a full show, for example - or at the very least, Jon Landau would be issuing big compensation demands for it.
Yep that's certainly possible. Unless the BBC or GFL come out swinging (which feels very unlikely), we'll likely never know exactly how far negotiations got or what concessions each side were and weren't prepared to make.
Could well be about his opinion of the BBC in general rather than anything specifically about his set. If he doesn’t want to be associated with them for political reasons then there’s not much ‘meeting in the middle’ that could be done.
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