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The Daily Mail has a lengthy piece about the plight of former Rolling Stone, Mick Taylor. The meat is that Taylor hasn’t seen performance royalties since 1982…

‘In 1982 they stopped paying me. They’d signed to a different record company and had new contracts and were advised they didn’t need to pay me any more,’ explained Taylor with a shrug.

‘Until then, I’d had a contract with Rolling Stones Records which was licensed to Atlantic Records – the same contract as the rest of the band.’

The deal gave him an equal share of performing royalties, though Jagger and Richards shared the writers’ royalties. But when the Atlantic contract expired, the band’s management used a loophole in Taylor’s contract to stop all payments.

‘I should have got a lawyer,’ he said. ‘But instead I called them rude words and asked how they could just stop paying me. They all know it’s not right. In fact it is outrageous. They get all the money and I get the plaudits and praise, even from Mick.

‘I’ve tried to talk to Mick a couple of times, but I realise that hiring a lawyer is probably the only way they’ll take me seriously. But they figure I’m not going to do anything about it.’

Taylor thinks for a moment, then adds: ‘I’m going to do something about it because it’s morally wrong to cut my royalties for those six albums.’

Just to give you an idea…We’re talking “Honky Tonk Woman”, “Brown Sugar”, Exile On Main Street, Sticky Fingers…a lot of big-time catalog sales since ‘82.

Get a lawyer Mick!

Hey Ronnie, if you are still out there, check out Mick Taylor playing a Tele.

2nd up, Rory Gallagher.

Click pause on the music player before playing the YouTubes.

Any more laundromat songs?

Both of these guys are still around. Both of these guys played in big time bands that are still around. When E.C. left the Bluesbreakers one of these guys took his place and the other followed.

Peter Green or Mick Taylor?