Fact #140154
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Short story:
The Verve release a new single, Bittersweet Symphony, in the UK. The use of a sample from a track by Rolling Stones’ manager Andrew Loog Oldham will involve them in a costly battle with rock entrepreneur Allen Klein.
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Chris Potter (producer/engineer) : That Andrew Loog Oldham loop is very little. It’s just a basic chord progression and a couple of bongos. It’s no big deal.
I’ve seen a couple of things where they say the strings were pinched – that’s bullshit. The string riff is Ashcroft’s (Richard Ashcroft of The Verve) with Will Malone, the lyric is Ashcroft’s and the melody is Ashcroft’s. It still confuses me how the credit can say ‘written by Jagger/Richards.
We sampled four bars. By the time we had finished recording, we had a vocal and about 47 different loops running from start to finish – only one of which wasn’t ours. There was virtually no arrangement – we just figured it out as we went along. It was a monster and ended up taking about four days to record.
Richard Ashcroft (singer, The Verve) : It was the best song Jagger and Richards have written in twenty years.
Andrew Loog Oldham : I thought Bittersweet Symphony was one of the greatest recordings of the past decade. I took legal action because I thought my record company had underestimated my contribution to that greatness.
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I’ve seen a couple of things where they say the strings were pinched – that’s bullshit. The string riff is Ashcroft’s (Richard Ashcroft of The Verve) with Will Malone, the lyric is Ashcroft’s and the melody is Ashcroft’s. It still confuses me how the credit can say ‘written by Jagger/Richards.
We sampled four bars. By the time we had finished recording, we had a vocal and about 47 different loops running from start to finish – only one of which wasn’t ours. There was virtually no arrangement – we just figured it out as we went along. It was a monster and ended up taking about four days to record.
Richard Ashcroft (singer, The Verve) : It was the best song Jagger and Richards have written in twenty years.
Andrew Loog Oldham : I thought Bittersweet Symphony was one of the greatest recordings of the past decade. I took legal action because I thought my record company had underestimated my contribution to that greatness.