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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