Coldplay

by **Dr Cheese** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:50 am

Dr Evil wrote: more disgraceful situations will arise such as The Verve losing all their royalties for "Bittersweet Symphony"

As far as I know The Verve don't get any royalties from Bittersweet Symphony as they didn't get permission to use the Rolling Stones sample in the song before they released it. I'm sure Richard Ashcroft often chuckles to himself about it whenever he hears it on the radio.

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1101

by **fat cherry** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:56 am

i've heard him talk about this and the story changes slightly over the years. When i first heard it they didn't ask for permission and sampled it from his old dansette record player in his squat in hyde, or something. LAtest I've hrad is they did ask for permission but then used a much bigger sample and ended up losing everything. The irony i suppose is that it isn't even the rolling stones as such, and even if it was it was from the period where alan klein, their supposed saviour, rather coolly obtained the rights to all their stuff**. I htink the delays in releasing all that stuff as remasters was due to conflict with the klein empire. I think Rich (bit of a gobshite nob if you ask me) is philosphical in that the single lead to major interest in the album and the follow up singles. I hithkn he's still a fairly well off person - condsidering they only had a couple of albums went major.

** though you'd have to blame andrew oldham for that as original manager who 'owned' it in the first place. Bill Wyman's book details all this stuff. Apparently when they got the prince wossname bloke in as new accountant and business adviser he worked out klein owed them about 18 million but to avoid lengthy legal percocess they accepted about 2m, mopst of which obviously went to mick n keef.

by **Voodoo Billy** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 7:02 am

Has someone swapped the H and T buttons on your keyboard FC?

by **fat cherry** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 7:08 am

you wouldn't know i'm a professional would you. fortunately word for windows fixes that if you ask it nicely, but this malarky. either that or i'm drunk uncommonly early.

by **fat cherry** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 7:14 am

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obitu ... 32780.html

knew he was dead but didn't know it was quite so recent.

by **moses (2)** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 9:01 am

Scouser wrote:Pet Shop Boys have just released a killer disco version of Viva La Vida...

I always thought that was a Ricky Martin song

by **fat cherry** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 9:10 am

that shows just how evil the coldplays are - take a song by someone else, change the words a bit, and the tune and the title and they try to pass it off as a completetly different song. bastards.

by **Dr Evil** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 10:44 am

fat cherry wrote:well we'll all have brain implants and every time we do something thats not allowed we'll get a jolt to rmind us that we've just been automatically charged double in our internet bank accounts.

Well said. You are as paranoid as me.

by **the ghost of guitarplayer** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 3:53 pm

fat cherry wrote:but they are nice boys....

http://www.nme.com/news/coldplay/48848

They are selling those damn costumes, thank the heavens. Reserved price ten english pennies.

by **Scouser** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 4:11 pm

by **DivaDiana77** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 10:06 pm

So Pet Shop Boys never broke up and they just stopped playing them over here, basically? It's so weird yet so cool they are still(?) around--or around again the way things have been going in the music world.

by **Scouser** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 8:27 am

DivaDiana77 wrote:So Pet Shop Boys never broke up and they just stopped playing them over here, basically? It's so weird yet so cool they are still(?) around--or around again the way things have been going in the music world.

Still around but selling less and less records as the years go by...though the UK tours still pack out Arenas. You cant help but love PSB, they dont take themselves too seriously and are a cracking live (well, on tape) act.

by **black francis** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 10:20 am

I kind of lost track of them after that album with "Yesterday When I Was Mad" (love that song) but every time I read a review of a new album it always seemed really positive. A lot of them were decrying the fact that as their music got better their audience dwindled.

Still listen to that weird comp from a long time ago. The one where they're wearing bee keepers masks.

by **withahip** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 10:23 am

black francis wrote: A lot of them were decrying the fact that as their music got better their audience dwindled.

That must be what is happening to EATB.

by **Scouser** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 4:42 pm

Apart from the music

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