Twenty-two years ago, in the midst of a legal dispute with the Rolling Stones, the Verve’s Richard Ashcroft signed away the rights and the royalties to ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony.’ The 1997 hit had sampled an orchestral version of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards’ 1965 song, ‘The Last Time,’ recorded by the Andrew Oldman Orchestra. The […]
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