(TV) Jagger

["Casey, Leo J" <CaseyL@VOLPE.DOT.GOV>]

I wouldn't go so far as to say Jagger (or Richard(s) ) steal
others music, but on one of their early 1970s albums 
("Sticky Fingers"?) they recorded the song 
"You Got To Move", which had been 
written and performed by bluesman Mississippi Fred 
McDowell for years.  The Stones' lyric credits and 
copyright made no mention of McDowell and the 
Jagger Stones/Richard(s) song writing team claimed they
wrote it.

Also, in a long Rolling Stone magazine article in late 1969,
Ry Cooder claimed that although he was given some 
playing credits on the album "Let It Bleed", that Richard(s) 
used/played many of Cooder's guitar melodies and riffs 
without any attribution.

Last but not least--------on Thanksgiving night(?) I 
caught the last 20 minutes of Jagger's 1 hr. infocommercial 
disguised as a documentary about him.  His producer was 
this sycophant who tried lamely to tell the cameras he was
being objective in his effusive praise for Mick's new record.  
Then we watched Jaggeer perform the single live in front
of a small audience----I thought the song was awful.
But over the next several days that single has 
been everywhere (like an empty beer can), and it just brought
back the whole thingamajig to me of how it's all about the 
amount of $ the record companies spend on promotion/getting
on radio's playlists that determines which records get to be hits.

Leo, 
who's still doubts the (naive?) claims that the internet will 
change/open-up the music business.   
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