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WHERE HAVE ALL THE SUPERSTARS GONE? by Mark Ellen - Mirror.co.uk
Excerpt:
...The 90s was an improvement but not by much. We got Liam Gallagher and Ian Brown, though both are dented by appearing to have bought the book that explains what's expected of a star and studied every page. So here we are in 2007 facing an unavoidable truth - we've only produced two top-grade, rock legends in the past 30 years.
One is a super-charged singer, lyricist and political activist with the advantage of coming from Ireland - making him seem an independent spirit to Europeans and part of a romantic fatherland for many Americans.
And yesterday's receipt of his honorary knighthood won't dent his charisma. He's Bono.
The other is a sexually ambiguous matinee idol whose every song title is an art statement and whose every opinion sounds as if broadcast from a universe free from the irritations endured by us mortals. He's Morrissey.
I've edited music magazines for the past 25 years and I can tell you only these two currently tick all four boxes that define a true mass-market superstar. They sell concert tickets, they sell merchandise, they sell records and they sell magazines.
And the reason we've produced only two is the massmarket is disappearing.