Mark Sutherland Sir Paul McCartney, Stevie Nicks, Led Zeppelin, Coldplay’s Chris Martin and over 150 successful artists and songwriters recently joined the growing chorus of voices demanding changes in the way music streaming pays creators in Britain.But while the open letter to U.K.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson – calling for streaming to be treated like a radio broadcast rather than a sale, giving artists and writers a larger share of royalties – featured a host of household names, the driving forces behind it are rather less celebrated musicians.Tom Gray, singer/guitarist with indie rockers Gomez and head of the #BrokenRecord campaign, and Crispin Hunt, former frontman of Britpoppers Longpigs and now chair of songwriters’ association the.
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