SPARKS

Sparks forever · Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 5:32 am Post subject: 21 x 21

Last year you performed 21 night in a row in London and played your complete back catalog another album every night. When will you release these concerts in a box?

A soon as all the legal aspects are solved, as the albums been released on different labels, we hope to release a dvd box containing all the 21 concerts. But as you know lawyers work slowly.

MJHSolomon · Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 7:40 am Post subject:

Is this an official response you received from Sparks' management? Somewhat encouraging, I suppose. I don't understand all this legal stuff -- wouldn't the Maels ultimately have the authority to do whatever they want with their own songs?
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Sparky Rickmaniac · Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 5:58 pm Post subject:

Depends who owns the copyright to the songs.
These are commodities that can be bought and sold just like oil or mineral rights.
There are a number of possible "original" owners, songwriter, record label, publisher, manager.
E.g. The Beatles songs were mostly written by Lennon/McCartney, early on were managed by Brian Epstein, recorded for Parlophone/EMI (I think) and songs published by Northern Songs, which I believe was a company owned by Epstein.
Anyway, for reasons that escape me, Michael Jackson ended up owning a lot of Beatles songs which Macca spent a lot of brass on buying back, which he could easily afford.
Who knows who owns the copyright to all/any of Sparks songs, could be a large number of people and I don't think R&R have Macca's resources to regularise the situation.
Hence the lawyers.

systemr2000 · Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 7:10 pm Post subject:

It'll be worth the wait
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jessie6413 · Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 8:06 pm Post subject: Re: 21 x 21

Stephen · Sparkologist Joined: 25 Jul 2002 Posts: 533 Location: Cork

I think they could fit them all on maybe 12 dvds.
2 concerts on each ands some bonus material on a few.
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systemr2000 · Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 5:45 pm Post subject:

On this forum a while back there were computer recordings of most of the 21x21 nights; the thread seems to have vanished now, does anyone know where I could obtain the Plagiarism night? Wish I'd downloaded them all now as the few I did download I enjoyed.
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Billy Stevens · Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 9:40 pm Post subject:

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