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Richard Ashcroft pulls out of second festival over COVID-19 safety measures
The former Verve frontman previously withdrew from Sheffield's Tramlines Festival earlier this summer after it became part of a government trial.
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5 Times Taylor Swift and Other Iconic Artists Were Scammed Out of Royalties
You'd think that the people who've created our most famous and abiding pieces of art -- whether it be audio or visual -- would be rolling in money. You write a hit song? You could at least...
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Rolling Stones Top StubHub’s Top U.S. Summer Tours (EXCLUSIVE)
The Rolling Stones rescheduled North American tour topped ticket marketplace StubHub’s fifth annual summer preview of the most in-demand acts of the season. Tickets for their forthcoming jaunt across the continent — which was delayed for several weeks by Mick Jagger’s heart surgery — topped last summer’s most in-demand tour, Taylor Swift, by 45%, and […]
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Rolling Stones Return 'Bitter Sweet Symphony' Songwriting Credit to the Verve's Richard Ashcroft
The Rolling Stones Return 'Bitter Sweet Symphony' Songwriting Credit to the Verve's Richard Ashcroft
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Richard Ashcroft Talks About ‘Emotional’ Legal Battle Over ‘Bittersweet Symphony’
On Thursday, nearly 22 years after the Verve’s “Bittersweet Symphony” was released, singer Richard Ashcroft announced that the Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger and Keith Richards assigned to him the songwriter royalties and rights from the song, which samples one of their compositions, and removed their writing credits. The songwriting royalties and rights had been assigned […]
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The Bitter Sweet Symphony saga: how the Rolling Stones made millions by doing nothing
One of the longest running royalty disputes in rock music has finally been resolved. Back in 1997, The Verve were forced to forfeit the rights to their song, Bitter Sweet Symphony, because it featured a four second sample from the orchestral version of The Rolling Stones’?number, The Last Time. The sample was a short, memorable string sequence, recorded in 1965 by the Andrew Oldham Orchestra. For this small snippet, Bitter Sweet Symphony’s writer Richard Ashcroft would lose his royalties to Mick
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Rolling Stones give up royalties on hit 90s track in 'magnanimous gesture'
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards from the legendary rock band The Rolling Stones have handed over the rights to a hit song despite legally winning its royalties more than two decades ago.
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Rolling Stones give up royalties on hit 90s track in 'magnanimous gesture'
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards from the legendary rock band The Rolling Stones have handed over the rights to a hit song despite legally winning its royalties more than two decades ago. Richard Ashcroft, lead singer of British rock band The Verve, lost the rights to his most famous song "Bitter Sweet Symphony" in 1997. A dispute arose when The Verve asked for permission to sample a short sequence from a version of the Stones' song "The Last Time," which was covered by the Andrew Oldham Orchest
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Bitter sweet victory for Richard Ashcroft as Rolling Stones stars hand over rights to Symphony hit
Richard Ashcroft has regained rights to his song Bitter Sweet Symphony after more than two decades, after Sir Mick Jagger and Keith Richards agreed to hand over their legal entitlement to royalties. The Verve singer lost the rights to his most recognisable song in 1997 thanks to a four-second orchestral sample of Rolling Stones song The Last Time used as a backing track. On Thursday, Ashcroft disclosed that Jagger and Richards had returned them to him as a “truly kind and magnanimous thing to do
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Rolling Stones Give ‘Bittersweet Symphony’ Songwriter Royalties to the Verve’s Richard Ashcroft
UPDATED: Nearly 22 years after the Verve's "Bittersweet Symphony" was released, the Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have assigned to Richard Ashcroft the songwriter royalties and rights from the song, which samples one of their compositions, and removed their writing credits. The news was first reported by the BBC and New Musical Express. […]
