Web Helps Musicians Sell Shares of Royalties
“Me and most writers can’t walk into a bank,” Mr. Glass said in an interview from his home studio in Los Angeles. “Banks don’t understand how songwriting works, how the whole business of royalties works.”
So Mr. Glass turned to the Royalty Exchange, a Web site where musicians can sell parts of their royalty income to investors. He put 15 of his songs on the block — including “Miss You Like Crazy,” a Top 10 hit for Ms. Cole in 1989, of which Mr. Glass was a co-writer — and raised $158,000. Mr. Glass retains most of his rights to those songs, but will now share part of the income with an investor whenever they are played on the radio or streamed online.
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Ninety-five percent of the vocals I recorded with him – on Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane and Pinups – were done in first takes. I would set the level, we would roll tape and that was it. That became the performance everyone heard. Whether or not you love his voice is a personal matter, but his ability to put those performances across is beyond admonition. And that doesn’t mean they’re perfect. There are places where the pitch is slightly off, or the timing is slightly off. But they’re human. It’s not like what we have today, where everything has to be auto-tuned and moved around on the grid. Bowie’s vocals are actual performances, and I think that’s one of the main reasons we’re still talking about Ziggy Stardust, 40 years on.
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