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Fact #6712

When:

Short story:

B.B. King releases a new single, Other Night Blues/Walkin' And Cryin' on RPM Records in the USA.

Full article:

B.B. King : I think it's very few people that got all of their royalties. You take a musician who was just starting out; unless he had a very good manager who was into business, it would be very hard for him to really know. Most of us didn't really care, we wanted what belonged to us, yes; but we didn't fight too hard to get it, because that was our only chance to get a better life. So some, I know I did, thought that if you did fight too hard, they may stop releasing your records, and if they did you'd have to go back to the same type of life you had prior to that.
(Source : interview by David Walters, Time Out, Nov 1971)