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Music’s making big news today as Sony-BMG, the world's largest producer of recorded music, has agreed pay a 10 million dollars settlement for paying DJ's to play its songs. Scott McKenzie, editor of Billboard Radio Monitor, will join us to talk about the crackdown on the time honored tradition of payola…and tell us what it means for what we’ll be hearing on the radio. And Paul Shaffer's big break came in 1982 as the leader of "the world's most dangerous band," serving as sidekick, bandleader and music director on David Letterman's late-night talk show. Today on Soundcheck, Paul Shaffer joins John Schaefer to walk through some career highlights and talk about the re-uniting of some of the key bands who made up the British Invasion. And we'll have a visit from the Brooklyn band, The Howard Fishman Quartet. Fishman's musical interests move between old-time swing and contemporary chamber pop. He and the band will perform live in the studio.