ROLLING STONES - FORMER ROLLING STONES BOSS BOASTS OVER VERVE TRACK VICTORY

FORMER ROLLING STONES BOSS BOASTS OVER VERVE TRACK VICTORY

Former ROLLING STONES manager ANDREW LOOG OLDHAM has ridiculed THE VERVE frontman RICHARD ASHCROFT over his loss of rights to the band's biggest hit BITTER SWEET SYMPHONY.
Ashcroft used a sample from the Rolling Stones' 1965 hit The Last Time for the famous orchestral loop which kickstarts the Verve track. The section was recorded by Loog Oldham's side project, The Andrew Oldham Orchestra.
Although Ashcroft and his bandmates negotiated with Loog Oldham to use part of the riff, the band were later sued upon the single's release in 1997 for using "too much" of the agreed sample.
The two parties settled out of court, with Ashcroft agreeing to hand over songwriting copyright and all royalties garnered from the track to Loog Oldham, and Rolling Stone rockers Sir Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
And now, more than 11 years since the suit was settled, Loog Oldham has derided the Verve singer - insisting he added no creative input into the song.
He tells Uncut magazine, "As for Richard Ashcroft, well, I don't know how an artist can be severely damaged by that experience.
"Songwriters have learned to call songs their children, and he thinks he wrote something. He didn't. I hope he's got (sic) over it. It takes a while."
And Loog Oldham jokingly boasts of what the track's royalties have brought him and his former charges, adding, "They (Jagger and Richards) have the watch and I have a pretty presentable watch strap. That's my little piece."