Hey, did you guys know that Bittersweet Symphony, made famous by The Verve, was written originally by the Rolling Stones? And that The Verve had to surrender 100% of the royalties to the Stones' copwriters, ABCKO?
So that famous song gave them fame, but much less fortune than one might assume. Crazy.
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According to wikipedia (granted perhaps not the most reliable source there is), the only part of the song that the Rolling Stones wrote was the orchestral riff that is sampled and looped throughout the Verve's song. The lyrics were purportedly written by the Verve as was the idea to loop the orchestra part over and over.
I like the prevailing ethos in early blues music (and also in a lot of Medieval European music), where just about everyone stole some riff or some lyric from somewhere else, so that most songs were new amalgamations of prior songs. Attempting to name a single author became an impossible task.
Apparently, I really get a kick out of writing run-on sentences.
WOW DYLAN. lol
So where did you find this out Kate?
A DJ on the radio mentioned it.
And Dylan, even if they did write their own lyrics, they still didn't get the money for the song. So it still sucks, no?
You're always such a Debbie Downer, even from across the pond.
I was actually trying to say that not having a single author was a good thing, but I guess it came out sounding like Debbie Downer anyway. Wah, Wah!
It has come to my attention that perhaps the "Wah, Wah!" in my above comment was not as clearly the noise from the Debbie Downer skit as it was when I imitated it in my head. Just so you know, I was not attempting babyspeak for "I'm rather famished, old sport."
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