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Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Director David Fairhead Stars: John Aaron, Stephen Bales, Jerry Bostick… Music by Chris Roe Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd At the heart of the Apollo program was the special band of brothers in Mission Control. The feature documentary film Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo tells their stories, describing the rural homesteads and smokestack towns they came from, and the remarkable team they became. The film consists of interviews with those who worked in Mission Control and astronauts, enhanced by extraordinary archive, stunning VFX and an original orchestral score. The film covers the first journeys to the moon by Apollo 8 and Apollo 11, and the huge effort required to save the crew of Apollo 13.  Mission Control (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) on Spotify Notes from composer Chris Roe Blending the orchestra with vintage synthesisers, the soundtrack to Mi

on Music Business Worldwide, the CEO of the UK’s Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA), Kim Bayley, gave a rousing defence of music streaming services – in particular, the right of these platforms to claim a larger portion of the industry’s revenue ‘pie’ at the expense of artists and record labels. As a few of you noticed, this included an unflinching takedown of my own words, as originally penned in this Rolling Stone column. “Tim Ingham recently wrote of money ‘being kept by… streaming platforms, rather than landing in the hands of labels and artists’,” wrote Bayley, “which, he implies, somehow rightfully belongs to artists, songwriters, labels and publishers. “This is quite clearly nonsense.” The suggestion, hammered home by ‘nonsense’, is obvious: Kim is valiantly rubbishing an unjust use of language – one supposedly designed to hoodwink you, valued reader, away from the simple truth of the matter. Except the simple truth of the matter, in this case, is all in th