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24th Aug 2015, 2:41 PM
	Fokeman I used to have a good memory but now I can't re Member since May 2011 5096 Points Moderator	From what I understand there was a big debate about the entire Planxty back-catalogue being sold wholesale to Shanachie. Christy Moore et al are all hugely p**sed off about losing all control over their work. When interviewed, Phil Coulter nonchalantly said (I'm paraphrasing here) "It was a business decision to sell it all and we offered it to them first..." We don't know how much it was but I expect it was the cost of a large house and no-one from the band was particularly in the mood for selling their house to buy back their OWN work. So it went to Shanachie. I don't know but I suspect someone else has bought it (or Shanachie) for bigger bucks so the band'll never get the rights to their own music back again. More than anything, I think they were furious about the crappy art work put with their music. They had no control whatsoever on what happened to the release of their music in compilations or rereleases. And we know from the court cases that came out of Wendy Newton's demise at Green Linnet that royalty payments are (allegedly) few and far between with these sorts of companies.

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