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The Pretenders couldn’t even make Limbaugh stop using their song as his theme song.
by onionisafruit 5y ago
The Pretenders couldn’t even make Limbaugh stop using their song as his theme song.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoLimbaugh (or his producers and/or stations) paid for ASCAP and BMI licensing, and the Pretenders music was released with ASCAP or BMI licensing in the USA, which allows anyone with the license to play the music (on the radio). It specifically prohibits the copyright holder from picking and choosing who can play the music.
- onionisafruit 5y agoYou are right. I remembered there was controversy about him using the song, but I apparently misremembered just about every detail of it - including the song name which I thought was “Way to Go Ohio”.
- onionisafruit 5y agoReplying to myself to say I went to wikipedia to fact-check myself on this after posting, and I was 100% wrong. The Pretenders’ label made Limbaugh stop using their song, but when Chrissie Hynde found out about it she worked out a deal with him because her parents were Limbaugh fans.
- Mountain_Skies 5y agoIIRC, she donated the royalties from his use of her music to a charity she felt he wouldn't like. He got to use "hippy music" to promote his show and she got to use a bit of his show's income to support a cause she liked and he didn't. They both won and lost.