Robert Plant made the right choice

by admin on December 29, 2007

in General,Humour

This from Davos for Newbies (with hat tip to Thomas Otter):

The Financial Times’ Ludovic Hunter-Tilney raves about the Led Zeppelin concert in London and recalls most reviewers didn’t think much of the band back in the early ’70s. The FT apparently was an exception:

When the Financial Times, far-sighted as ever, published a rave review, Robert Plant was delighted: it meant that his father, a regular reader, would forgive him for not becoming a chartered accountant.

Hard to add to that except to say that I saw Led Zeppelin in 1971 and 1972. Breathtaking stuff.

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If I had a quid for every time I've been told that music and maths go together I wouldn't need to work.

My honest opinion is that, apart from really formalised music by a composer such as Bach that sticks to (nay, makes) a multitude of complicated rules, music and numbers are not closely related. Music is so much more than rules and patterns. Music can stir the most incredible emotional responses. I'd like to see a set of accounts do that :-)

PS my degree subject was music...

M

@John: As a connoisseur of the music scene I'd expect you to know these useful tidbits.

We covered this story on AccountingWEB back in May 2005 in The Born Dull?! School of Rock.

Several members of Gomez, a band that's been puttering along for nearly a decade now, started out when they were business studies students, but followed the Mick Jagger career option (without the motorbike).

Like many others, I'm always fascinated by the strange connection between crunching power chords and number crunching.

He may not have the papers but he sure has the skills to make a self respecting accountant blush. Full scholarship at LSE to study Finance and Accounting but he 'asked' to leave after allegedly riding a motorcycle through the library

NY Times: Mick Jagger Profit Maximizer http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/mick-ja...

Independent (right of reply) ----- Mick Jagger: I'm not a tax protester http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_1...

Now that's something I definitely did not know - no wonder they say Mick's a tight wad, takes after most accountants I know.

Mick Jagger managed to do both ;-)

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