Music, power, politics, and the stories behind the stories.
Directly from Miles
Miles on the Record
This is the main personal section: what I think now, what I remember, what I got right, what I got wrong, and what everyone else has conveniently forgotten. It is written, dictated, supplied, or approved by me—not a generic “voice of” approximation.
Expect music-business war stories, political arguments, historical corrections, useful provocations, and the occasional sentence that makes an old enemy sit up much straighter.
Editorial Collections
8 entries
The Music Business
How artists, labels, managers, publishers, promoters, and money actually behave.
0 entries
The Police & Sting
The strategy, risks, personalities, touring, and decisions behind a global breakthrough.
3 entries
Punk, New Wave & Breaking Rules
When having no respectable option became a competitive advantage.
0 entries
Arab Music & Global Sound
Crossing markets, languages, and cultural assumptions without flattening the music.
97 entries
Entertainment, Film & Media
Records were only the beginning; attention itself became a business.
181 entries
Politics, Power & the Middle East
Independent commentary from someone who distrusts slogans, tribes, and simple answers.
22 entries
Intelligence & the Copeland Files
OSS, SOE, the early CIA, espionage culture, propaganda, and family stories from inside the mythology.
52 entries
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Success, failure, reinvention, and the education hidden inside an expensive mistake.
All Miles on the Record
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Oct 19, 2020
Funny
Funniest thing I heard last week was an avid Trump supporter who said he was making 4 times as much money under Trump than in the previous regime…
Oct 14, 2020
Taxes
Politicians in favor of Universal Health Care have stated that if your taxes go up to pay for the health care are less than the cost one is paying…
Oct 11, 2020
Forward Vision
Some might say Donald Trump does NOT see the big picture - I Disagree. However, the problem is that the big picture he sees is 'How does it fit into…
Oct 9, 2020
Pastor Samuel Rodriguez
I was just listening to Samuel Rodriguez on the Amanpour & Co. TV program and once again the word "socialism" was used by a person who has no idea…
Oct 9, 2020
Truth
People wonder with all the negative news about Donald Trump, books from people who know him - whatever - HOW could he still have unshakable…
Sep 29, 2020
Voting Advantage
With the debate today between Joe Biden and Donald Trump one thing is for sure. Trump has a BIG advantage. When one candidate believes his statements…
Sep 25, 2020
Voting
The reality of much voting in a Democracy is voting for the lesser of two evils. Most people like parts of a candidate's platform but not all of it…
Sep 24, 2020
The Virus and the left - right divide
How the Government has dealt with the virus should have thrown a monkey wrench into the capitalism vs socialism discussion. A pure capitalistic…
Sep 23, 2020
Right Left
The Republicans were originally small government, more individualistic, low debt, separation of church and state and generally "smart" realistic…
Sep 22, 2020
Bernie Madoff
Bernie Madoff showed that even smart people can believe stupid things, Donald Trump is the Madoff of politics today.
Sep 21, 2020
Israel
The unfortunate truth about the supposed peace between the Gulf states and Israel is that both will change their minds when they get what they want…
Sep 20, 2020
Good deal, Bad deal
There is something I don't understand Mr President. On one hand you say we were doing so well economically - best in history etc yet on the other you…
Sep 19, 2020
Trump, Iran, Russia and China
China would like to back a candidate that is bad for the US but good for China but sees neither in Biden or Trump. Instead they see Trump as bad for…
Admirers, skeptics, former allies, competitors, critics, and lifelong enemies are all welcome. An audience that agrees with everything is either not listening or trying to get a deal.
Read the stories, check the facts, challenge the conclusions, and argue intelligently. History becomes much tidier after the people who made it have stopped talking. I have not.