What happened to music that meant something?

The Who at the Kingdom or Kiss at the Coliseum.

Where is the Misty Mountain Hop? Where is the smoke on the water?

Where is the Iron on the water where is the iron man of today. Hey, this is not a test. This is Rock and Roll. Welcome to Sound Opinions from Chicago Public Radio and American Public Media.

I'm Jim De Orgatus, the pop music critic at the Chicago

Sun Times.

And I'm Greg Cut, I read about Rock and Roll

for the Chicago Tribune.

This week on the world's only rock and roll talk show,

Jim and I pay tribute to Valentine's Day

by playing our favorite unconventional love songs.

Plus we'll honor a full and punk idle Lux interior.

You're listening to sound opinions and now it's time for some music news.

Under my thumb, the girl who once had me down.

Under my thumb thumb the girl who wants to push me around is down to me.

One of the biggest new stories of the last decade in the music industry has come down in the last couple of days.

That is the merger between Live Nation, the biggest concert booking agency in North America

and Ticketmaster, the largest concert ticketing agency in America.

They have vowed to merge to create a $6 billion company that will be known as Live Nation

Entertainment. As a result, they would operate the majority of major concert venues in

America, sell the tickets to events at those venues, and manage many of the artists

who play there.

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