Fact #193496
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Larry Page, co-manager of The Kinks, issues a statement confirming that he has served a breach of contract writ against co-managers Robert Wace and Grenville Collins. The case will drag on for five years.Full article:
Ray Davies (leader, The Kinks] : We were paying 30% management commission and it didn't matter who got the 30%. Wace and Collins got it regardless, and they hired Larry Page. Nah. It wasn't to do with money. The court case, ironically, we didn't get the chance to cite what the case was really about. It was about my publishing.
The dispute, if you look at the records, is between Boscobel Productions and Denmark Productions. It's the two managers fighting. Because they terminated the relationship with Page. It was nothing to do with the band as such. So that was the lawsuit and we were party to it, but Judge Widgery was very smart. He went on to become Lord Chief Justice, and he looked at me in the dock and he said, "This isn't about a dispute between these two companies. It's about this young man's publishing." And in the judgement he alluded to that. And even at the court of appeal which was a draw, Justice Dunn, I think it was, said that the whole suit was like a red herring because it was really about publishing, and it should have been about infancy and inducement to enter contracts too young.
To say I wanted to get rid of ... no ... when anybody doesn't do their job properly and it's a conflict of interests, and you feel they're not serving you right, you have to do something about it. And I think there was a conflict between Robert and Grenville and Larry anyway. God knows. We'll never know, because they won't admit the disputes they were having. For all we know, if things had gone otherwise and Larry had stayed with us, he might have led us to get rid of the other two because hecould do it all. And he would have got the entire 30%.
No, it wasn't a question of saving money, because that court case probably cost me more down the line than if I hadn't fought it. Again, Larry, there's another bitter edge coming up down the line from him having stayed awake thinking about it for years and years afterwards. And now he's in Australia, Oceania. It's sad. Iwas thinking about that the other day. The generation that should have gone to Australia found something to keep them here a bit longer, but they still go in the end. It just took them a bit longer.
He's a chancer. He did really well for non-musician. He was a fighter. He's a grafter. You know, you can't ... It's what British ... it's what Cool Britannia is made of nowadays. These guys with the internet companies, they're chancers just like Larry Page. They just had a slightly better education and they can work the internet. Just chancers. So we shouldn't put him down really.
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The dispute, if you look at the records, is between Boscobel Productions and Denmark Productions. It's the two managers fighting. Because they terminated the relationship with Page. It was nothing to do with the band as such. So that was the lawsuit and we were party to it, but Judge Widgery was very smart. He went on to become Lord Chief Justice, and he looked at me in the dock and he said, "This isn't about a dispute between these two companies. It's about this young man's publishing." And in the judgement he alluded to that. And even at the court of appeal which was a draw, Justice Dunn, I think it was, said that the whole suit was like a red herring because it was really about publishing, and it should have been about infancy and inducement to enter contracts too young.
To say I wanted to get rid of ... no ... when anybody doesn't do their job properly and it's a conflict of interests, and you feel they're not serving you right, you have to do something about it. And I think there was a conflict between Robert and Grenville and Larry anyway. God knows. We'll never know, because they won't admit the disputes they were having. For all we know, if things had gone otherwise and Larry had stayed with us, he might have led us to get rid of the other two because hecould do it all. And he would have got the entire 30%.
No, it wasn't a question of saving money, because that court case probably cost me more down the line than if I hadn't fought it. Again, Larry, there's another bitter edge coming up down the line from him having stayed awake thinking about it for years and years afterwards. And now he's in Australia, Oceania. It's sad. Iwas thinking about that the other day. The generation that should have gone to Australia found something to keep them here a bit longer, but they still go in the end. It just took them a bit longer.
He's a chancer. He did really well for non-musician. He was a fighter. He's a grafter. You know, you can't ... It's what British ... it's what Cool Britannia is made of nowadays. These guys with the internet companies, they're chancers just like Larry Page. They just had a slightly better education and they can work the internet. Just chancers. So we shouldn't put him down really.
(Sources : not known)