Fact #163266
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Short story:
Joe Cocker's contracts with Straight Ahead Productions and Essex Music come into effect, but will prove to be unsatisfactory because of the royalty arrangements imposed by Essex MD David Platz.
Full article:
Joe Cocker : The contract was for ever-decreasing royalties, and I suddenly thought, 'Jesus, that means I have to sell like 15,000 records to make a cent. So I went to Platz's office one afternoon and just got the little bastard by the neck and lifted him up!. But he had this buzzer under his desk, the panic button, and these two heavyweights came in and did the same to me. I was furious with him. I said, 'You're screwing me!' And he's going, 'Joe, I didn't'. The thing was, in those days you were just so glad to make a record. Everything's groovy, we've got a deal. You didn't care.
(Source : Joe Cocker, The Authorised Biography by J.P.Bean, 1990)
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(Source : Joe Cocker, The Authorised Biography by J.P.Bean, 1990)