We sincerely hope you haven’t been sleeping at an airport since the Great Outage of 7/19 began, and that your workflow didn’t go into a tailspin. And we’re very sorry that a byproduct of everything coming back online is that we did too. In any case, enjoy these photos of industry folk from a more carefree, innocent time—up to and including a few days ago.

Eminem connects with Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg for a surprise performance in London during the release week of The Death of Slim Shady. There are now no blunts left in London.

September boss Jonathan Dickins is gearing up for Adele's Munich engagement; Sony U.K. Chairman/CEO Jason Iley will be honored at 2024's MITS Awards. Here they are in a vintage pic, hoping not to appear in HITS. Some things never change.

In this classic shot, Melissa Ormond, the late, great Larry Vallon, Celine Dion and Jay Marciano discuss Lenny Beer's handicap. The golf one, we mean.

PULSE co-founder/Co-CEO Scott Cutler, President Ashley Calhoun and co-founder/Co-CEO Josh Abraham, currently celebrating Tommy Richman's big success on their new label, wonder if we've run out of avocado-toast jokes. We have not.

HITS' Lenny Beer buzzed his hair, which means there are only 56 days left of summer. Later, Lenny went in search of other things to point at.

Virgin Music Group caballeros Michael Cantor, Jacqueline Saturn, Victor Gonzalez and Chi Orjiakor attend Pepe Aguilar's (center) spectacular Mexican-folk equestrian show at Crypto.com Arena. Later, Jacqueline wisely ignored a text from Todd Hensley.

"All Things Must Pass," George Harrison sang, but we are sad to bid farewell to celebrated exec Eddie Rosenblatt, seen here with Harrison and the late, great Mo Ostin.

RCA promo boss Keith Rothschild takes one for the team and does the pointing thing with HITS' Todd Hensley. Later, Nipper lifted his leg over Todd's sneaker, which is considered very auspicious.