It's good for the market. It enables all digital music retailers to compete on a level playing field.

In general music has become more topical over the last few years even on albums that are mostly battle rhymes, you still hear references to the Iraq war and to government priorities, but it's often just in passing.

Apple now has to either open up or close down [in France].

He re-injects all this with an unexpected, original twist.

It's hard to say how much activity there is [today], or whether the music promotion game will merely morph again as it did over the last few years to acknowledge the letter, if not the spirit, of the law,

'The Sound of Music' is set in 1938 in Austria at the time of the Anschluss.