Bittersweet Symphony

[Longy]

Mick & Keith are giving the royalties & future payments back to Richard Ashcroft

The Rolling Stones have given Richard Ashcroft back 'Bitter Sweet Symphony' royalties

Fuck knars how much that’s worth, but it’ll be a canny chunk of change. Be like winning the lottery for Ashcroft.

 

[Arkle]

I presume the rest of The Verve also benefit?

 

[Rubberglove]

looks like he's a lucky man

 

[Longy]

I presume the rest of The Verve also benefit?

I wondered that. The article only mentions Ashcroft. He says “me” & not “us” either.

 

[Arkle]

I wondered that. The article only mentions Ashcroft. He says “me” & not “us” either.

Aye, I suspect that's because he doesn't like the rest of the band much.

 

[makumstu]

I wondered that. The article only mentions Ashcroft. He says “me” & not “us” either.

I’d say it’s because he was the writer on it and not the other band members...

 

[the dude]

I presume the rest of The Verve also benefit?

Would depend who wrote it. If it's him he'll get it.

 

[ajthemackem]

Might be worth a canny chunk but the petty part of me would tell them to stick it up their hoop.

 

[Ramshanker]

Loved The Verve, remember seeing them at Haigh hall in Wigan, cracking homecoming gig. Slept in a park over from Wigan rugby stadium that night. 18 years old, fuck, where's the time gone

 

[HABA87]

It sounds bot all like the stones version anyway.

 

[dangermows]

Tbf it's not like he ripped the song, just one small segment on a loop.

Might be worth a canny chunk but the petty part of me would tell them to stick it up their hoop.

Once upon a time, when The Verve were big, he might have done.

 

[mini-x2]

Doesn’t deserve owt in my eyes like. The song is 99.9% the Stones’ handiwork.

 

[dangermows]

It sounds bot all like the stones version anyway.

 

[Goat Eyes]

Aye, that’s quite compelling.

 

[Deano]

About bloody time. Not the Stones' finest hour. Greedy fuckers

 

[niknak_123]

How much is a single play on a radio station worth? Same for every song?

 

[HABA87]

Which sounds bot all like the stones version too. At a fleeting listen I wouldn't know they were the same track.

 

[dangermows]

Aye, that’s quite compelling.

Yup. I know the original piece if music was much slower and needed speeding up to sound like it does it the vid but still.

Which sounds bot all like the stones version too. At a fleeting listen I wouldn't know they were the same track.

Not the point though. Without the original there's nothing to speed up to make the sound that was ripped. Mind its not an out and out like some make out I agree.

 

[PhilSAFC]

About bloody time. Not the Stones' finest hour. Greedy fuckers

100% this. Pathetic really. Glad the genius that is RA, is finally being recognised.

 

[Kent_Mackem]

Bit lost here. In The Verve song there is nothing other than that loop.

Wasn’t it originally from a classical piece anyway, like The Farm’s All Together Now?