
Hypebot has an interesting article highlighting the fact that Eddie Van Halen, Seal, Billy Corgan and Journey have all sent signed letters to the US Congress expressing their support for the proposed merger of Ticketmaster and Live Nation. Why is that interesting? Well, none of them mentioned the fact that they were either managed or co-managed by Front Line Management, whose boss Irving Azoff is also CEO of… Ticketmaster.The problem isn’t that they signed letters supporting their boss’ corporate strategy, but that they didn’t declare the connection. That said, there are an increasing number of other artists who have come out against the merger too – whatever their affiliations.