Sheryl Crow is the latest artist to come forward and confirm that her masters were destroyed in the 2008 Universal Music Group (UMG) fire.
In an interview with the BBC, the singer says she learned this week through an article published in
that all her masters were destroyed when a music archive went up in flames in Los Angeles over a decade ago.in an interview. "I can't understand, first and foremost, how you could store anything in a vault that didn't have sprinklers? And secondly, I can't understand how you could make safeties and have them in the same vault. I mean, what's the point?”
She added, “And thirdly, I can't understand how it's been 11 years. I mean, I don't understand the cover-up."
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