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Hello Darkness, My Old Friend. I've Come To Sell My Songs Again.
At 79, Paul Simon has become the latest artist to cash in bigtime, selling his entire catalog of songs to Sony Music. He's the latest in a long string of aging tunesmiths to settle for big money by giving up rights to a lifetime of work.
Paul Simon sells song catalog, joining trend of older songwriters
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aflem wrote:
Hello Darkness, My Old Friend. I've Come To Sell My Songs Again.
At 79, Paul Simon has become the latest artist to cash in bigtime, selling his entire catalog of songs to Sony Music. He's the latest in a long string of aging tunesmiths to settle for big money by giving up rights to a lifetime of work.
Paul Simon sells song catalog, joining trend of older songwriters
wow! big news. if you don't understand the difference between selling publishing rights as opposed to recordings... in the immortal words of brother greggory allman [answering dickey betts when he asked why he had been fired from the allman brothers band] "if you don't know, i can't tell you."
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