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Universal CEO Doug Morris Speaks Out…A Little Too Loudly

"There was a cartoon character years ago called the Shmoo," he says in a raspy tenor. "It was in Li’l Abner. The Shmoo was a nice animal, a nice fella,. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2007/11/universals-morr.html]

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"There was a cartoon character years ago called the Shmoo," he says in a raspy tenor. "It was in Li’l Abner. The Shmoo was a nice animal, a nice fella, but if you were hungry, you cut off a piece of him and put onions on it, and if you wanted to play football you just made him like a football. You could do anything to him. That’s what was happening to the music business. Everyone was treating the music business like it was a Shmoo." –

Universal CEO Doug Morris (read the entire Wired interview here)

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