‘Yeah,
but that was days ago. Things move fast in show business, my friend.
This is the place where it all starts. We don’t want to take
any chances, do we?’
Mozart’s doubts ran deep and shouted loud, but he kept his silence
for now. And he swore to himself, there and then, that nothing they
could do would ever make him learn a silly dance routine to go with
the presumably silly song.
The idea of a Week In The Life of Mozart TV show had been bandied
about as far back as the night of his win, and he had initially been
keen on the idea, thinking he could show fans the inner workings of
one of his symphonies, from conception to actual performance. But
now that the cameras were on him all day, filming every move he made
no matter how boring (and some of them were very boring), he’d
found his enthusiasm waning.
For a start, it was remarkable how little of his time was taken up
with actually creating music. Most of his waking hours, they were
spent being photographed, or signing autographs to
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give
to his fan club. The fan club idea was one he liked, but he was
constantly kept at arms length from it, and never got to be as hands-on
with the people who had voted for him to win as he would have liked.
Instead he spent his nights in fashionable nightclubs, and attending
movie premieres – anything, Robert claimed, to keep him in
the limelight.
Then it was time to promote his new single – the one written
not by Mozart, but by the three stooges that Robert had hired to
craft him a hit.
The song was called Lie To You, Baby.
And Mozart hated it.
He’d won a show called Class Idol because he was supposed
to have that extra bit of class that would make him stand out from
the other 39 acts in the top 40. But Robert’s cronies had
created a song that sounded exactly the same as all those other
acts. Any attempts that Mozart made to put his own stamp upon the
finished product – a violin here, a piano solo there –
were edited out in the recording studio when its supposed performer
was busy out there promoting the damn thing.
He’d won the show, but at what cost?
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