I heard that Phil Collins watched someone kill a guy in a row boat and wrote a song about it. :) There are so many sad stories like that. Bitter Sweet Symphony is pretty sad even though no one died. Apparently they licenced a sample but used a longer slice than they paid for. Long story short, writing credit was changed to Jagger/Richards and all the royalties for these one hit wonders went to a former Stones manager.
Wow that's pretty interesting and pretty sad at the same time. I always thought bittersweet symphony was its own thing not part Rolling Stones. Looks like you learn something every day.
It's not even rolling stones. It's a sample of a symphonic arrangement someone else did of "the last time", and a small sample at that. And they had a license deal on place that the stones manager withdrew from after the song became a hit, threatening to kill the whole album if he didn't get 100% royalties from the song. So wrong.
Wow. Fuck those guys. I don't blame him for punching the lead singer. Sounds like he had every right.
I dunno, it sounds dude was drunk so much that he was going to screw over the band.
I guess it depends on if they were sending him his royalty checks or not. I mean, dude wrote the song, right?
They screwed him there: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Hopkins Doug Hopkins (Rolling Stone, 1993)He was replaced by Scott Johnson. The band then withheld $15,000 owed to Hopkins until he agreed to sign over half of his publishing royalties. Hopkins was also required to relinquish his mechanical royalties to Johnson, his replacement. Hopkins reluctantly agreed to these demands because of his dire financial situation.
I understand why they fired me, but did they have to get so fucking cold and ruthless about it?
But what about a pop punk cover of Hey Jealousy?