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Originally Posted by AndrewG
Good thing Bruce Springsteen published his own 300+ songs.
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Yeah, but he had to sue for it; Mike Appel, his first manager, owned the greater part of his songs in the beginning. I think Bruce was naive, and had no idea what he was signing with his first contract with Appel. (Legend has it that he signed the contract on the hood of a car.) He couldn't record for three years because of the suit- "Darkness" was the result.
In the end, he had to pay Appel to get his songs back, but he owns them all now, which I believe is rare in the business. Even the Beatles don't have all their publishing- that famously belonged to Michael Jackson.
