‘Mahler would have liked Beyoncé’s music’
mainA reporter rang from The Sun, asking for details of the family connection between Mahler and Beyoncé Knowles, as mentioned in my book, Why Mahler?
As a condition of the interview, he promised to mention the book in Britain’s biggest mass-mammary newspaper (so known for its topless page 3).
I opened the paper this morning and found a short sentence misquoting me, right beneath the boobs.
In a longer story online, the reporter mistitled the book, ‘Fate, death and Alma’ and made me out to have said: ‘Mahler would have liked Beyoncé’s music’. Oh, really?
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3795389/Beyonces-classy-genes-revealed.html
You couldn’t make it up…. so that’s what The Sun does.
I think I would rather have been phone-hacked.
The language they use is hilarious (“…The Sun can reveal”).
They als reveal that Mahler was “remarked” as more important than Beethoven. Period. Gulp!!!!
Well Norman you know what they say about “any publicity . . . ” 🙂
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