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Song authorship controversies, from George Harrison to OasisBy GUSTAVO TURNER
The Rolling Stones, "Anybody Seen My Baby?": The post-"Steel Wheels" Rolling Stones run a pretty tight ship from a commercial standpoint, so everything seemed ready and triple-checked for the 1997 release of "Bridges to Babylon." Everything, that is, until Keith Richards happened to spin an advance copy of the lead single, "Anybody Seen My Baby?," at Redlands, his Sussex estate.
"My daughter Angela and her friend were [there] and I was playing the record and they start singing this totally different song over it," Richards writes in his entertaining 2010 autobiography, "Life." Over the chorus melody of "Anybody Seen My Baby?" the then-twentysomething Angela and her friend were singing the lyrics to k.d. lang's 1992 worldwide smash "Constant Craving," and they scanned perfectly. According to his book, Richards' first thought was, "Oh ..., he's lifted another one." "He" being, of course, songwriting partner Mick Jagger.
"I don't think he's ever done it deliberately," adds Richards. "He's just a sponge." Richards called his management, "and all of the heavy-duty lawyers, and I said, have this checked out right now, otherwise we're going to be sued. And within twenty-four hours, I got a phone call: you're right. We had to include k.d. lang in the writing credits."
"I got a phone call from my lawyer saying, 'Would you like 25% of the Rolling Stones' new single, for the publishing,'" a bemused lang told the BBC program "Something for the Weekend" in 2011. "And I said, 'Yes! Sure! It's like I won the lottery'."
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