Talk about an Oblique Strategy. Brian Eno, musician-philosopher-producer, has been tapped by Liberal Democrat party leader Nick Clegg to be an adviser on youth issues and help fix Britain's "broken politics."
Eno told the BBC: "The Lib Dems are the effective opposition and I hope that, the election after next, they will be the opposition and maybe the one after that they will be the government."
Would Barack Obama hire Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis? Rick Rubin would be an interesting Cabinet choice but he'd want to move the White House and wouldn't necessarily go into the office. Perhaps if Phil Spector eludes a conviction, Rudy Giuliani could hire him and Bernie Kerik's criminal life would not seem like such a major issue.

Lyle Lovett became the latest artist to head to D.C. and testify in favor of being paid for radio airplay, even using an axis-of-evil argument. (No, he was not referring to Clear Channel.) 
“When radio plays recorded works, they generate profit for themselves because they attract listeners and advertising dollars. Yet radio has never compensated performers for the value their creative work brings to the radio industry, because the Copyright Act does not protect sound recordings in the same way it protects the underlying songs,” Lovett told the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. “Let’s face it. No one tunes into a radio station to hear the commercials.”
The musicFIRST Coalition was also represented by singer songwriter Alice Peacock.
Lovett also addressed the international angle, suggesting that not paying a performer for airplay, is un-American. 
“Foreign radio stations often broadcast a high percentage of American music, but we don’t get our share of the royalties due to our lack of a right in the U.S. This is amazing. We’re responsible for 30 to 50 percent of music played on stations around the world, and we don’t have a performance right? I can understand why China, North Korea, and Iran might not. But the United States?”
Currently, foreign broadcasters withhold royalty payments to protest the fact that U.S. radio stations do not honor a performance right for foreign artists.
The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing “Exploring the Scope of Public Performance Rights” was the second congressional hearing about the issue of a performance rights on radio.