MUSIC INDUSTRY: Rest in Peace? The Perils of Posthumous Pop

Often the artists vision is ignored in music released after their death. Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly and John Lennon have all had music released after their deaths and the music has been tampered with in ways the artists might not have approved. When the Beatles recorded Buddy Hollys Crying, Waiting, Hoping at their audition for Decca Records in 1962, they were recreating an arrangement that Holly himself had never approved, much less heard. The version of Crying, Waiting, Hoping the Beatles w...

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