Bretrick
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Remember Bitter Sweet Symphony by The Verve?
Apparently Shortly after the song's release, The Rolling Stones sued The Verve for copyright infringement because the younger band's track was based on a sample of the Stones' song The Last Time.
Before the release of their album Urban Hymns, The Verve, with lead singer Richard Ashcroft, had secured permission to use a five-note section of The Last Time.
The deal, brokered by the Stones' long time manger Allen Klein, would see the song writing royalties split 50-50 between The Verve and Keith Richards and Mick Jagger.
But the deal broke down when Klein accused The Verve of using more than had been agreed to.
"We were told it was going to be a 50/50 split, and then they saw how well the record was doing," Verve bassist Simon Jones said.
"They rung up and said we want 100 per cent or take it out of the shops, you don't have much choice."
The Britpop act relinquished their rights. For two decades, The Verve — who broke up in 1999 and then again in 2008 — made no publishing royalties from what was probably their most famous song.
May of 2019 Ashcroft revealed on Twitter that the dispute — one of the more unbelievable in the history of music copyright disputes — had been put to bed.
Jagger and Richards had decided to hand him the rights to Bitter Sweet Symphony, Ashcroft said.
I love this song
Apparently Shortly after the song's release, The Rolling Stones sued The Verve for copyright infringement because the younger band's track was based on a sample of the Stones' song The Last Time.
Before the release of their album Urban Hymns, The Verve, with lead singer Richard Ashcroft, had secured permission to use a five-note section of The Last Time.
The deal, brokered by the Stones' long time manger Allen Klein, would see the song writing royalties split 50-50 between The Verve and Keith Richards and Mick Jagger.
But the deal broke down when Klein accused The Verve of using more than had been agreed to.
"We were told it was going to be a 50/50 split, and then they saw how well the record was doing," Verve bassist Simon Jones said.
"They rung up and said we want 100 per cent or take it out of the shops, you don't have much choice."
The Britpop act relinquished their rights. For two decades, The Verve — who broke up in 1999 and then again in 2008 — made no publishing royalties from what was probably their most famous song.
May of 2019 Ashcroft revealed on Twitter that the dispute — one of the more unbelievable in the history of music copyright disputes — had been put to bed.
Jagger and Richards had decided to hand him the rights to Bitter Sweet Symphony, Ashcroft said.
I love this song