Subject: Re: Did McCartney sell the rights to Buddy Holly's widow? |
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Date Posted: Fri March 06, 2020 03:21:01
In reply to:
Hans Werner Finking
's message, "Did McCartney sell the rights to Buddy Holly's widow?" on Thu March 05, 2020 11:25:04
From the BMG Web Site:
Buddy Holly LOS ANGELES, 2 JULY 2015 â BMG is delighted to announce that it has agreed the acquisition of all the rights in the seminal Buddy Holly catalogue controlled by his widow Maria Elena Holly. The deal means that one of the most distinguished and influential catalogues in popular music history will now be represented by one of the most innovative and fastest-growing companies in music, BMG. Maria Elena Holly has been the custodian of her husbandâs legacy ever since his tragic death at the age of 22 in a plane crash on 3 February 1959 â immortalized by Don McLean in âAmerican Pieâ as âthe day the music diedâ. In 2010 she co-founded with Englishman Peter Bradley Senior The Buddy Holly Educational Foundation. Maria Elena Holly said, âFor almost 60 years Buddyâs loving fans and I have worked to bring his creativity to successive generations of fans and I have been looking for a steward to lead those efforts into the future. I am very happy to announce that I have entrusted Buddyâs legacy to BMG.â The deal comprises three separate elements of the Buddy Holly catalogue:
US music publishing rights in virtually every song written by Buddy Holly including the classics âEverydayâ, âPeggy Sueâ, âThatâll Be The Dayâ, âWords Of Loveâ, and âNot Fade Awayâ;
Royalties due throughout the world on sales of Buddy Holly recordings as well as his writerâs share of publishing royalties;
All of the rights in Buddy Hollyâs name, image and likeness.
Buddy Holly is acknowledged as one of the most influential figures in popular music history. The Beatles famously named themselves in tribute to Hollyâs band, The Crickets. Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Elton John, Eric Clapton and Bruce Springsteen have all acknowledged their debt to Holly. The first ever âjukebox musicalâ, Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story has been seen by more than 22m people and has been running for 25 straight years in the UK, making it the highest-grossing rock musical of all time. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Holly thirteenth among "The Fifty Greatest Artists of All Time
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