HW Changing song titles

[K Henderson]

Steve said...

>2.  Problems with old publishing companies.  Let's say the band are in
>dispute with the publishing company they were using in the early 70's and
>they redo an old song.  Instead of issuing it under the old name, the new
>version gets a new name and publishing rights are assigned to the new
>publishing company.  Such disputes are not unknown, as the writing credit
>of Calvert/MacManus on Silver Machine goes to show!

Right...and as has been mentioned many times before, Hawkwind has done this
by either retitling the tracks, or in some cases retitling the "authors" as
with MacManus above.  And Mandelkau being used in place of Turner (Kadu
Flyer) - though someone here suggested that Mandelkau was a real person that
presumably Nik knew, right?  And Linda (neé Steele) Moorcock being credited
with the lyrics to 'Arrival in Utopia' so that Michael would get paid, which
he didn't think would happen if the publishing co. knew it was him that was
being credited since there had been some previous dispute.

Or some such thing...

Grakkl (FAA)