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Scaramouche 10:54 pm UTC 01/15/08 |
| In reply to: | re: Celine Dion CBS TV-Special - second_eagle 10:41 pm UTC 01/15/08 |
| Dion's worth a fortune (even back then), and asking for a share of the writer's publishing, was considered greedy, tacky and totally out of order, almost bordering on blackmail. Probably her husband's idea, and I wonder if they are still doing it. If she loves a song, and wants it on the album, then the writer (known or unknown) deserves his/her royalty and shouldn't have to split it (he/she's already giving a slice to his/her publisher). I wonder if she wanted 'Sacred' on 'Let's Talk About Love', but had to relent to her husband? It would have been one of the few gems, in a very average album. Funny how they get greedy, and then the song quality starts to tail off, ever since? She's relying so much on covers nowadays. > 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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