Posthumous pop: the stars who keep on selling

Are fans or penny-hungry marketing execs to blame for the inevitable 'legacy' releases that follow an artist's death? Is it right to release work that the artist clearly didn't think was worth putting out themselves?I didn't want them sitting on a hard drive, wilting away," Salaam Remi, Amy Winehouse's producer, said, explaining to a room of music journalists in October why he decided to begin work on an album of her songs. Next week, a little over four months after the untimely death of the s...

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