My son regarded what we did as illegal. He kept saying it was wrong to steal
the music. I told him we were listening to it, just that. When we were
finished we could trash it if he preferred. If he wants to fight for my
rights he could call up BMI and ask them why my broadcast-related payments
were so low during the years The Who were in the top 10 AOR playlists. He
might ask them why during the 1989 Who tour, when we paid a huge sum of
money to BMI for the right to perform songs I had written, they eventually
paid me (after a lot of complaining from my manager) a tiny portion of that
sum, excusing themselves because their main payout area that year was
Nashville.
Via slumberland.org,
Pete
Townshend on the recording industry.
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