June 16, 1997 –
The Verve released Bitter Sweet Symphony in the UK on this date. The song lives up to it’s title: the song is a huge hit, but Mick Jagger and Keith Richards end up getting credits and royalties.
The famous orchestral riff incorporates a sample from an obscure instrumental version of the 1965 Rolling Stones song The Last Time by Stones producer Andrew Loog Oldham, who included it on a 1966 album called The Rolling Stones Songbook (credited to The Andrew Oldham Orchestra).
The Verve got permission to use the six-second sample from Decca Records, which owned the Oldham recording, but they also needed permission from the publisher of The Last Time, something they didn’t realize until after the album was completed.
And so it goes
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