Is Richard Branson getting nostalgic for Virgin Record's glory days?

If Branson bids for Virgin can he alter the music landscape again when recorded music revenues are falling?One thing separated Richard Branson from the other entrepreneurs who founded record labels in rock's golden age. For him, music was always a means to an end. The likes of Seymour Stein at Sire, Jac Holzman at Elektra, Ahmet Ertegun at Atlantic and Chris Blackwell at Island defined themselves as music men; though they wanted to make pots of money, they wanted to do so by releasing music they...

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