The Bitter Sweet Symphony dispute is over.

[Weekender]

BBC News - The Bitter Sweet Symphony dispute is over
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48380600

That Klein was a rum 'un.
We were talking about this the other week and the sample doesn't even resemble The Last Time and on checking wiki it said "arranged and written by David Whitaker" re the Andrew Loog Oldham track. If anyone deserved the credit it would be Whitaker.

 

[musiclover]

Good news. I always thought it v unfair that Ashcroft et al didn't benefit from what was, ironically, a very original song

 

[Swamp Thing]

The video is my blueprint for walking through Market Street in late December.

 

[Weekender]

It sounds like it's just future royalties so not exactly generous.

 

[blossomchris]

It is like getting blood from a stone

Bloss

 

[Woodface]

It is an odd song, I used to really like it but I started to find the drums really annoying & the switch was turned off for me.

 

[Jamie]

It sounds like it's just future royalties so not exactly generous.

Gets a fair bit of play on Radio X and Absolute though.

 

[matt j]

How big of them, 20 years too late.

 

[Arkless Electronics]

"The drugs don't work" was a much better song.

 

[Woodface]

"The drugs don't work" was a much better song.

I absolutely agree, the best song he's written

 

[Rob998]

How big of them, 20 years too late.

Ashcroft opened for the Stones at Old Trafford last summer, so there must have been some understanding that it was the management rather than the band. Klein was quite the operator, didn't he throw someone out of a window over some gig takings?

 

[TomF]

Listening right now.

That album is second year at university for me.... Bloody hell I feel old!

 

[wacko]

We tend to assume these always work in favour of the artist. Just google Bittersweet (how appropriate) Symphony royalties and read what an A1 Sh!t Allen Klein is. And poor old David Whitaker, who actually wrote the orchestra part, got nothing too. Doesn't reflect to well on Jagger/Richards either IMO.

 

[DavidS]

Listening right now.

That album is second year at university for me.... Bloody hell I feel old!

Blimey , still relatively new to me !