Don't Libyan protesters care about r'n'b stars?

If Gaddafi goes, who will bankroll enormous gigs of the kind played by Lionel Richie and Beyoncé?Like everyone, Lost in Showbiz has spent this week looking aghast at events in Libya: the violence, the bloodshed – and Gaddafi's insistence that everyone taking part in the demonstrations is on "hallucination pills", as if the whole thing is being orchestrated by Hawkwind. And, with every news report that arrives, the same unanswered question presents itself. Will these people not think at all of...

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