Tony Duggan quotes Norman LeBrecht:

>A fortnight ago, Universal's head of classics and jazz, Chris Roberts,
>flew out to Hamburg and announced a "restructuring" in which Fine
>and his marketing director were made redundant.  Nothing unusual in
>that, except that dicky-birds started whispering that the two chiefs
>had been trying to save DG by selling it to a German competitor for
>just under 200 million, which is neatly the amount that Universal
>require to pay off their loan.

Forgive me for not quaking in my boots but the thought of DG being set free
from Universal sounds like a good thing.  Perhaps I am missing something.
Still it can not be denied that DG is not what it once was.  They don't
even offer as many reissues as their competition much less new releases.

Steve M. (Northern Virginia)