MUSIC THAT MATTERS – “Lyric of the Day”

(Music Cut 1 — iconic string opening of “Bitter Sweet Symphony”)

February 1, 1998.

A defining song in rock music
was climbing the charts.

The Verve’s “Bitter Sweet Symphony.”

(Music Cut 2 — verse settles in)

This song became a legal nightmare –
built on a Rolling Stones sample
that cost the band all publishing rights
for more than two decades.

(Music Cut 3 — instrumental swell)

But then in 2019,
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
signed their share of the rights back to
Richard Ashcroft —
aka the Verve guy.

After 22 years,
there was finally a happy ending.
He owned his own song.

(Music Cut 4 — final chorus lift)

LYRIC OF THE DAY:
“I’m a million different people
from one day to the next.” — The Verve

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