Sheldon Taylor's Souls of Black Notes

                                                                                           While the Budweiser Super Fest was cementing itself as a preeminent summer tour package, the music business was rebounding from an industry recession. In December '84 Billboard   ( "The Challenge of Change In The Record Industry" ) tracked its return to solvency, citing the shedding of 70s financial excess, renewed consumer spending and emerging technology as reasons for the fiscal turnaround.  The emerging music video medium was also an industry change agent. While short-sighted label ambition, budgetary constraints and network politics delayed R&B's full expansion into this area, writer Alexis Petredis cited the MTV years as a career boom for 80s pop and rock acts like Hall and Oates. The " genre-resistant" duo 's five consecutive platinum albums, #1 singles and "relentless succession" of hits sustained their career durability ("racking up m