(Though even if his corporate career is washed up, he could always take up songwriting again. It worked for another hard-nosed businessman.)
Oh, and you can find more schadenfreude here.
I wouldn't write them off. The Universal Music Group is the only Big 5 recording company that made a profit lately, and looks likely to be around for a while (unless Vivendi bleeds it dry, Festival-style, of course). And they're not very nice people, even by recording racket standards.
Bronfman used to be a songwriter? I thought as a third generation Jewish gangster and extortionist, whiskey baron and head of the international Jewish terror organisation (otherwise known as the World Jewish Congress) he wouldn't have found time.
That's weird. I was about to compile a list of the world's ten scariest corporations, with Vivendi Universal somewhere amongst them. I'll have to reappraise. Heh.