I've noticed a number of peculiar incidents among the members of the student body all having to do with rock and roll music.

Oh, I'm down, bet you man. Now if you don't think this song is the greatest song ever. I will fight you. He brought the funk with James

Brown and George Clinton and now basses Bootsy Collins walks us down

memory lane. I'm Greg Cotta of the Chicago Tribune and I'm Jim Deeregatus from

W be Z and Columbia College. Today we explore the history of funk with the great

Bootsy Collins and later on we'll review the new solo album by Fleetwood Max

Lindsay Buckingham. That's coming up on sound opinions. From W be Z Chicago and

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It's so funny how we don't talk anymore. It's so funny

while we don't talk anymore.

But I love to sleep. That is Cliff Richard a pioneering British rock and roll artist who is behind a major change in copyright

law in Europe. The European Council which represents the

major European governments has just voted to extend copyright on sound

recordings to 70 years from 50 years.

So that's a pretty big deal, you know.

I mean, we're talking about some major artists here, right?

Well, absolutely, in addition to Cliff, and it's being called Cliff's Law,

and other 50s performers, you have those first generation British invasion

superstars the Beatles the Rolling Stones the who the kinks very lucrative

recordings let's not forget ABBA I mean how I'm talking about some big money here critics are saying

that this law is not really going to help most artists what it is designed to do is

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