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SIR PAUL AWAITING BEATLES BACK CATALOGUE
Rock veteran SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY is hopeful he will regain the rights to THE BEATLES hits in 10 years, because copyright laws mean he will regain what is rightfully his. MCCartney, 64, was outbid by former friend MICHAEL JACKSON for the rights to the songs in 1985, who reportedly sold them on to Sony Records in recent years in a bid to get out of debt. Currently, MCCartney has to pay outsiders every time he wants to play Beatles tracks he wrote himself with former bandmate JOHN LENNON. He says, "In about the 10 years, a lot of it returns to me, just legally. "Some of the important rights are about to return, which I didn't realise. "You know what doesn't feel very good, is going on tour and paying to sing all my songs. Every time I sing HEY JUDE, I've got to pay someone."
02 October 2006 07:54
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Guru 
( 57)
posted on 02/10/2006 16:38
It just shows what is wrong with the recording business. It is rediculous that
a songwriter has to pay someone else before he can sing his own songs.
Surely Michael Jackson would not like it if he had to pay someone else before
he can sing his songs.
Sir Paul McCartney should have his entire back catalogue back. Since he wrote
the songs so they should be his first and foremost. Bidding for the rights is
rediculous. Of course it all started with rip offs between Alan Klein and Lew
Grade, with ATV music as indicated in a channel four documentary about ten
years ago.
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marcela 
( 5)
posted on 02/10/2006 15:46
How can he be mad at MJ? He was too cheap to buy those rights. Twice. He was
even too cheap to pay 20 mil. dollars for it. So, Michael paid 47 million for
it and he got it. And I think he deserves it. McCartney needs to wake up.
