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Phonographic Performance Ltd owes Moz money

posted by davidt on Thursday February 06 2003, @11:00AM
Acton writes:

According to Monday's (03/02/2003) issue of Edinburgh's 'The Metro' newspaper, Morrissey may be owed money. The issue reads as follows:

'5,000 performers have yet to claim millions of pounds in royalties from radio and TV airplay. The sum is now so large that music firm Phonographic Performance Ltd, which collects and distributes royalty checks to artists, has launched a website to encourage those eligible to apply. Among those listed are opera star Luciano Pavarotti, former Smiths frontman Morrissey, Dead Or Alive singer Pete Burns ...'.
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  • If Morrissey dropped a 50p piece it'd hit him on the back of the head before it reached the floor.
    paulybob <[email protected]> -- Thursday February 06 2003, @11:04AM (#53982)
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    • Too funny... by haze (Score:1) Thursday February 06 2003, @12:23PM
  • they owe Mike Joyce some money?!

    ;)
    MikeSmiths <[email protected]> -- Thursday February 06 2003, @11:51AM (#53989)
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    Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want

  • Goto the website (Score:1, Informative)

    royaltiesreunited.co.uk

    He's owed royalties for "How Soon Is Now?", supposedly dating back to 1995 and a considerable sum...
    Anonymous -- Thursday February 06 2003, @12:12PM (#53992)
  • for a second I thought it said

    Pornographic Performance Ltd owes Moz money

    --

    Incidently, the other headlines I misread at first were

    Johnny Marr/Morrissey story & Porn DVD's 4 Free -

    BBC website of Hot Hard Nipples!

    Richard Hawley speaks out on Morrissey & interviews college girls being naughty

    but I'm sure I'm wasn't the only one to mis-read those.
    Smiths <reversethis-{moc ... a} {2eporhtdniw}> -- Thursday February 06 2003, @11:06PM (#54069)
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  • Do people get royalties from photo shoots? If so, are Morrissey and Pete Burns owed money from back in 1985? I guess Pete Burns would welcome the pennies to cover some of his OTT plastic surgery..!! Ha-Ha! :-)
    pashernate -- Friday February 07 2003, @06:32AM (#54085)
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  • Maybe he could use this money to bribe some record company executives into giving him a record deal?
    Peter Pan -- Friday February 07 2003, @06:56AM (#54087)
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    "Every time you say you dont believe in fairies, a fairy dies."
  • MARTIN LUTHER KING is owed cash. I hope he hets it.
    Anonymous -- Friday February 07 2003, @09:11AM (#54093)
  • eh? they don't know how to do it, or they don't know they are owed money?
    Anonymous -- Saturday February 08 2003, @05:54AM (#54123)
  • This is an ongoing problem in the UK and they have tried to make artists more aware of royalty issues. Many are due to receive some form of royalty bonus collected in other the years and waiting in a large slush fund.

    This "news" has been advertised via BBC news discussions and also press adverts etc.

    I don't think they have make it clear whether "royalties" are tax free.

    Thank goodness Morrissey and Marr are the artists that pick up these things from the Smiths - and ducked the trend for all band members to be listed as songwriters on records and albums.

    This is surely something that the waste of space that is Ms Joyce could have got his teeth into had he have been considered worthy - and he obviously was not.
    Anonymous -- Sunday February 09 2003, @01:33PM (#54162)

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