Church News - Guitarist Carlos Santana has said he wants to become a church minister when he retires from music. Santana, 61, told Rolling Stone magazine he would eventually like to start a church in Maui, Hawaii. He also described how his faith has helped him get through the difficult times in his life. "I'm going to stop playing when I'm 67 and work on what I really want to do, which is to be a minister, like Little Richard," he said. The musician is currently in the middle of his Live Your Light tour which ends on 12 October in Concord, California.
Royalty News - UK pop and rock stars are taking action to try to gain ownership and control of their work from record labels. Robbie Williams, Radiohead, Kaiser Chiefs and The Verve are among the acts who have signed up to a new pressure group, the Featured Artists' Coalition. It wants artists to keep the rights to the music they create and to have a greater say in how their songs are sold - and a bigger slice of the takings. It is a sign of a shift in power in the music industry in the digital age.
A spokesperson from the BPI - the body that represents the UK's recorded music business - said it was "looking forward" to working with the coalition. "The UK music business is a complex community that binds performers, songwriters, promoters, managers, agents, record labels, publishers, distributors, manufactures and retailers. No one part of the business can function without the other. This is a business under huge external pressure, and we are stronger united.
(Jim Evans)
