Herselfās cousin was the judge on that Ed Sheeran case. Heās a very talented musician himself. I was chatting to him about it for a good while the last day. It was interesting, and there was more to it than met the ear, but the case hinged on the fact that the plaintiffs song had only been played on mainstream radio twice, once at 3am, so the chances of it having been heard were slim.
He went on to say that computer coding was going to be an absolute nightmare for this kind of complaint in the future he thought.
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Something I learned today.
Maybe youāre not such a doddery old fuck 
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Sound of the rolling stones to sign it over after it stopped making money.
Bittersweet is apt
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Itās a classic. Itāll always make a few quid. Nasty business that though.
Youād imagine the stones have made off with 90% of the income anyway, and the cunts dripping with money
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Very true, but thereās future royalties to think about and it will be a tidy income going forward for their families. Also, the song broke The Verve into a different stratosphere, while they may not have gotten the money from BS, they did sell a huge amount of albums, merch, and gigged fairly hard off the back of it. It changed their lives, regardless of what they got from it specifically.
I always thought it was Jagger that went after them, but from the reading of the NPR article posted, it was another vested interest. The music business is a murky as baxing, but barely keep pace with the sham that is horse racing.
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You will ruin faganās carefully constructed persona
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Occasionally a band will agree to give up 100% of the royalties for a song for the use of a sample because of the merch and gigging opportunities it will give them. Royalties arenāt what they used to be anyway.
Streaming has fucked up the royalties gig alright. BS broke The Verve across the world, it worked out pretty well for them all told.
iirc allen klein, the thieving cunt, got most of the money. I think the stonesā contract with him lapsed and they promptly gave the money to the verve
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Oasis tribute to Ashcroft is one of their finest moments.
Did he write that song?
Knebworth was the highpoint of western civilisation.
That look between Noel and Liam, magic.
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Written about him by Mick Jagger.
And he got those clowns to sing it?
Today I learned that George S Morrison was a naval commander during the Gulf of Tonkin incident which led to an escalation in the Vietnam War. Nothing unusual in that but the article then said his son was Jim, lead singer of the Doors!! The very epitome of American culture and counter culture, must have been fun at Thanksgivingā¦
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Wow. Never knew that.
His lyrics in The End make sense now
The horror.
The horror.
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