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Empress Of England

In 1965, the ‘English Invasion’ was in full swing and for my next recording I thought “why not record in London?”. Although I was still performing and promoting my recordings on TV, I didn’t earn enough to travel to England and also pay for my next recording session. So… IRead More →

What is a Reproduction Rights license? It is an authorization to reproduce or make a copy of music in digital and/or physical form. Axe Music (administrator) along with Belsize Park Music and Bluenose Music are music publishing catalogues based in Canada with 500+ copyrights mainly by Canadian songwriters. SOCAN RRRead More →

After I completed High School in Oakville, our whole family moved to Toronto. Already a keen listener to the AM hit radio formats, I taught myself a few guitar chords and wrote my first songs. In January, of 1964, the Beatles took over the charts and my interest in records,Read More →

MusicNotes

These days, music publishing rights are often lumped in with the recording right. In the age of popular music, the music publisher quite often discovered, recorded, supported and promoted songwriters for their entire career. It was a separate business often run by music entrepreneurs. Dick James, an English Music Publisher,Read More →