I grew up when the whole Motown thing was huge. The charts in those days were dominated by groups more than solo artists at one point.

For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It's amazing. And it's free. I love it. It's absolutely brilliant.

Thank God kids love following an artist. When you get a group who pop, it's the best thing in the world.

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