Music Copyright Cases: Bitter Sweet Symphony (Why The Rolling Stones owned Richard Ashcroft's s

Music Copyright Cases: Bitter Sweet Symphony (Why The Rolling Stones owned Richard Ashcroft's song)

One of the biggest songs of the '90s is without a doubt "Bitter Sweet Symphony" by The Verve.
From the opening few bars of strings, it's instantly recognisable and transports you back to the brit-pop heyday.
The Verve weren't newcomers, by the time "Bitter Sweet Symphony" and the accompanying album "Urban Hymns" was released they had been going nearly 10 years, released 2 other albums, and had broken up once already and reformed.
The success of "Bitter Sweet Symphony" should have been their crowning glory, but instead, it leads to one of the biggest injustices in the music business that took over 20 years to resolve and resulted in a bitter sweet victory for the writer.

This is the story of why Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones owned 100% of a song they didn't write and how the real writer, Richard Ashcroft, got it back.