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royalties and where did the money go?
TOPIC: royalties and where did the money go?
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royalties and where did the money go? 19 Years ago
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I constantly encounter previously successful, musicians/vocalists/writers who claim they never got paid for their work.Yet on speaking to them further, you hear about the constant parties, the cars, women, men, girls, boys, drink, drugs, nice house etc."But it's all gone now!"
In my day job I work 42 hours per week as a clinical psychologist, assessing mental health. It's not the hardest job. My salary is around 30k p.a. I can live quite comfortably on that. If however I chose to eat my lunch and treat a partner at an expensive restaurant each day and ate out every night along the same lines, my salary would be gone before I got home... so putting it into context. it has to be the same theory for many of these hard done by pop stars who reckon they never got paid. It seems all too easy to blame the person who flogged his guts out to get you your 5 minutes of fame and dared to take a percentage for it.
Which brings me to my next question.Did the Piglets ever get paid?
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Slight diversion, but relevent to this topic... 19 Years ago
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The same on a much smaller scale with our last release, we do not even own the rap, which we wrote, as we attached it to a cover song ,apparently.
Now, this could get really complicated, should we detach the rap, and make it into a different record, does this then get owned by the publisher who`s song we stuck it on in the first place?
A colleague and friend of mine has only just got paid back royalties, for work he did back in the early seventies, purely because he was not credited on the records, a guy bought the back catalogue of the megastar concerned, and found my mates name on the credits, in pencil, and it was all sorted out through Pamra(is that how you spell it?).
I think with the fact that we are all living longer, makes it so important to get the credits on songs right from day one, and re- studio session fees versus points, for players, I am going for both these days.
When and if , I get to 68 years old, I would be surprised to get work, and I reckon any windfall will be precious.
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Re:With my covers I always tried to add something to the original... 19 Years ago
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I agree one hundred per cent Jonathan - that you should bring your own personality or ideas into a cover to seperate it from say the original but maintain the valuable and worthy attributes of the (original) song within your own version.
Personally I loved what you did with "Sugar Sugar" by
(JK project) Sakkarin.
You turned a sugary bubblegum song into a heavy metal farce with a comical twist .. it was quite brilliant.
What about the picture sleeve .. those gappy teeth !!
It all fitted together so perfectly.
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