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Did Kenna want to play the following night? Yes, he said, and then posted a message on his Website, announcing his appearance. That was at four-thirty the day before the show. БЂњBy the next afternoon, we got a call from the Roxy. They were turning people away. I figured weБЂ™d have at most a hundred people,БЂ«Kenna says. БЂњIt was jam-packed, and the people up front were singing along to all the lyrics. It tripped me out.БЂ«In other words, people who truly know music (the kind of people who run record labels, go to clubs, and know the business well) love Kenna. They hear one of his songs, and, in the blink of an eye, they think, Wow! More precisely, they hear Kenna and their instinct is that he is the kind of artist whom other peopleБЂ”the mass audience of music buyersБЂ”are going to like. But this is where Kenna runs into a problem, because whenever attempts have been made to verify this instinct that other people are going to like him, other people havenБЂ™t liked him. When KennaБЂ™s album was making the rounds in New York, being considered by music industry executives, on three separate occasions it was given to an outside market-research firm ...»