Rock & Roll Refugees: 10 People Who Escaped the Music Industry

[Raoul Duke]

Layoffs and the business' decline have scattered thousands of employees – so where are they now?The major record labels have laid off more than 5,000 employees since CD sales began plunging in 2000 — and that's not counting all the people who ran screaming from the music business on their own. All asked themselves the same question: Now what? "When you've spent 20 years in the music business, you don't have that many real-life skills," says Debbie Southwood-Smith, a laid-off Interscope Records A&R executive. The answer: teacher, nurse, financial consultant, door captain,...

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