Was Neil Young’s tantrum to silence Joe Rogan a dictatorial demand to curtail free speech or a publicity stunt? Unfortunately neither answers supports “Rockin’ in a Free World”.

Hipgnosis Songs Fund Ltd. bought 50 per cent of the rights to folk and rock songwriter Neil Young’s discography, marking the latest in a bonanza of music rights acquisitions after artists, cut off from touring income by the coronavirus pandemic, look to raise cash. Bloomberg

The question applies to other has been stars… Joni Mitchell, Howard Stern, the Demon…