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And when I was little I thought [url=
was about the bird in this video. And not at all about Comrade Kruschef.
(from wiki)
Scenes showing the two together in various happy situations, including wearing Watford FC colours, were based in fantasy, and many were expecting a follow-up after the fall of the Berlin Wall in which they would free to be together, but it never materialised.
Oh my god, I would have wee'd my junior superman undies to see someone on TOTP in a Watford FC kit.
clubber - 😆
was going to post but smacked out ma nut right now
Well, he shouldn't be so precious about his music..talk about prima donna. It's just a song. If he didn't want people singing it then he shouldn't have published it.
Yes but he holds the rights to it's use. It's up to him who can sing it. He wrote the bloody thing! No-one's stopping SuBo writing her own songs.
'I'm Waiting for the Mayn', though- love to hear SuBo do that....
Oh well...she'll just have to wait til he pops his clogs then.
...and then the 25 years or more after his death, until the copyright runs out!
I really don't understand what your point is. Susan liked the song and wanted to sing it, but he's so precious about his song he said no. Like I said, if it's so special to him he should have kept it just for himself.
Well he's obviously decided SuBo isn't the person he want's singing his song. it's up to him.
The point is, that the Velvet Underground were part of the decadent Andy Warhol Factory/Studio 54 scene. Drugs, promiscuity and all sorts of other depravity were rife. I can understand Lou Reed not wanting a prim and proper church-going middle aged virgin doing his songs! It would be like Girls Aloud doing [url=
'One'[/url].
Mind you, that [i]would[/i] be subversive, surely?
I really couldn't care if his song was about the death of his great Aunt Flo. It's just a song. Still, he can choose who he wants to sing it, and IMHO, make himself look like a precious tosser in the process.
Not a VU fan, are you FoxyChick? 🙂
Yes but he holds the rights to it's use. It's up to him who can sing it. He wrote the bloody thing! No-one's stopping SuBo writing her own songs.
So what happens at gigs? Do performers have to request permission to play those cheeesy covers that get trotted out in encores? Or do they just think f* that and launch in Red Red Wine without the writers aut
hority?
Hmm, it's also [i]his[/i] song, a piece of art he created, so I think he can do what he likes with it. If I wrote a song about, say, the death of my dog, I wouldn't want, say, N-Dubz desecrating it.It's just a song
In fact, I'm heartened that Lou Reed has turned down what would have been a lot of money in favour of artistic integrity. So rare today.
So what happens at gigs? Do performers have to request permission to play those cheeesy covers that get trotted out in encores? Or do they just think f* that and launch in Red Red Wine without the writers authority?Copyright covers public performance, so technically they should have permission to do the song, yes. It's someone else's intellectual property. I don't think Solly Weinberg and the Bastards doing [url= http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvlvo_take-my-breath-away-berlin_music ]Berlin's 'Take My Breath Away'[/url] down the Dog and Duck would have the original artists too stressed, mind. It's about commercial gain more than artistic integrity, mostly.
If I wrote a song about, say, the death of my dog, I wouldn't want, say, N-Dubz desecrating it.I think this sums it up more beautifully than I could possibly have done.
What load of bollox!! 8)
It's not bollox though FC. What if SuBo wrote a lovely song about her grandmother, but then Snoop Dogg wanted to do a version of it set to a porn video? Would she be so keen to allow her creation to be sullied thus?
Can't believe Gilbert & Sullivan allowed Father Ted to sing My Lovely Horse
And that cornershop let this version of brimful of asha go through
'Love, Love will tear us apart, again...'
That was ruined for me by seing Peter Hook perform it. With an orchestra. In a proper dad rock style, complete with arm swinging and 'one more time guys', 'sing along guys' etc.
Going back to the original thing, she is essentially wanting to sell a cover version (the TV program is sold to broadcasters). You need permission for that, same as so people who sample songs without permission got in trouble (or people who perform obvious ripoffs / cover versions without permission, like the Verve's Bittersweet Symphony).
Joe
"Susan" 😆