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re: Celine Dion CBS TV-Special

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second_eagle 10:41 pm UTC 01/15/08
In reply to: re: Celine Dion CBS TV-Special - Pudding 10:38 pm UTC 01/15/08

Cheeky, yes, but a very canny business sense, I've gotta say. She (or at least her husband) certainly knows where the money is.

> Dion and her husband/manager, René Angelil, asked the
> writers of all the songs submitted to them for up to 20
> percent of the publishing money.

>
> What a cheeky bitch.
>
> > n00b coming along to back up a poster...something like
> > that, but I think it had to do with the publisher...this
> > link should explain...toodles!
> >
> > > From what I can remember (and I could be wrong) Jim wanted
> > > control of his songs but the record company wanted control
> > > of the songs, that's why Is Nothing Sacred never got
> > > released...something like that.
> > >
> > > > I don't know what happened with her & Jim after Falling
> > > > Into You.
> > > >
> > > > The whole music industry knew he had a lot to do with the
> > > > success of that record, and the obvious thing was for Jim
> > > > to do more on the next record, and yet all he got was one
> > > > 'additional production' credit, on one track.
> > > >
> > > > Major missed opportunity (for both of them)!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > I'd have liked to have seen Celine do more Jim stuff. Some
> > > > > people can't stand her, but for a French Canadian, I think
> > > > > she's alright.


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