“I know that the British music industry is in crisis. You know that the British music industry is in crisis. My parents – whose interest in music is so profound that they have now owned a CD player for 15 years without ever learning how to use it – know that the British music industry is in crisis.” But sitting around whining about it solves nothing. The music industry is in crisis because of a series of bad business decisions and an inability to change with a changing world.