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Manager John Kennedy tells ‘Billboard’ how Ashcroft got out of “one of the toughest deals in music history”Richard Ashcroft of The Verve.A manager of The Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft has revealed how the songwriter managed to win back the rights to ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’ from The Rolling Stones. Speaking to Billboard in an interview published yesterday (June 24), John Kennedy – one of two managers Ashcroft hired last year – shone a light on the process […]The post Richard Ashcroft’s manager reveals how The Rolling Stones returned the rights to The Verve’s ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’ appeared first on NME.
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