Let's see...Gordon wasn't marketable and yet Peter Cetera of the group Chicago has a sizable solo career crooning synthetic,unemotional ballads?
How about the unprecedented success of Steve Winwood (age 40 in '88) between 1986 and 1990? He was an older artist,whose career was so-so at best,and yet Island records found a way to make him marketable also. So,I don't really buy the "Market Moved" reason. Any act can be marketable in any decade if all parties try hard enough to not just get material out there but help the artist re-invent themselves. As I stated above,it just wasn't done then as much as it has been since the advent of music video and artists having more say in what they want to do. Gordon tried but,I'm sure most of us here feel WB dropped the (cannon) ball on that one! Finally,if alcohol or drugs were a factor in an artist being treated as stated above,Ozzy Osbourne would've been fired on day 1! In case we forgot,labels in the '70s & '80s (and who knows how long) readily supplied their artists with these very things. Anything to keep them satisfied and recording & touring! I hope Gordon ends up either at Island records or the label Johnny Cash is on now. That'd be a heck of a duet!
It's been the B! Catch ya on the flipside of Sundown!
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