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You can play music to death. WEATHER FORECASTER: Get out
the snowshoes and the shovels. CLIVE: As an executive,
you're more aware of it. And you're certainly aware of it
much earlier than the artist. KENNY G: When I think about
selling 75 million records, I feel like I was super lucky. Lucky that I happened to be
an artist at the time period when people were buying
albums and cassettes and CDs, because that was the technology. And we had record stores, and we had radio that was
promoting these things. RADIO PRESENTER:
The VH1 ticket hotline
is brought to you by... KENNY G:
Artists now, they come out. There's no platform to sell
a lot of records. Now you're looking at views
and you're talking about plays
the snowshoes and the shovels. CLIVE: As an executive,
you're more aware of it. And you're certainly aware of it
much earlier than the artist. KENNY G: When I think about
selling 75 million records, I feel like I was super lucky. Lucky that I happened to be
an artist at the time period when people were buying
albums and cassettes and CDs, because that was the technology. And we had record stores, and we had radio that was
promoting these things. RADIO PRESENTER:
The VH1 ticket hotline
is brought to you by... KENNY G:
Artists now, they come out. There's no platform to sell
a lot of records. Now you're looking at views
and you're talking about plays
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You can play music to death.
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WEATHER FORECASTER: Get out
the snowshoes and the shovels.
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CLIVE: As an executive,
you're more aware of it.
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And you're certainly aware of it
much earlier than the artist.
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KENNY G: When I think about
selling 75 million records,
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I feel like I was super lucky.
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Lucky that I happened to be
an artist at the time period
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when people were buying
albums and cassettes and CDs,
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because that was the technology.
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And we had record stores,
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and we had radio that was
promoting these things.
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RADIO PRESENTER:
The VH1 ticket hotline
is brought to you by...
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KENNY G:
Artists now, they come out.
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There's no platform to sell
a lot of records.
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Now you're looking at views
and you're talking about plays.
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Movie Summary
An examination of the most popular instrumentalist of all time, Kenny G, and why he is polarizing to so many.
