Neil Young has been busy both debunking and correcting, as his big beef with Spotify continues. He’s been correcting himself, but the debunking relates to a conspiracy theory that has been circulating that he’s only complaining about COVID misinformation in the Joe Rogan Experience podcast because vaccine maker Pfizer owns his songs catalogue.It does seem unlikely that a pharmaceuticals company would own Young’s songs, but there is a sort of logic to how this conspiracy theory came about.
And, in fact, for said conspiracy theory to stand up, all you need to do is ignore most of the facts. Like all the great conspiracy theories.The basic allegation runs as follows: Pfizer is an investor in Hipgnosis and it was Hipgnosis that acquired a 50% share in Young’s publishing catalogue last year.
Linking all that together, some believe it’s obvious that Pfizer has been very busy of late exploiting its control over Young’s music to pressure him to start a big old fuss in order to convince young people to eat up their yummy vaccines.However, the one issue with this is that Pfizer isn’t an investor in any of the various Hipgnosis ventures.
A former CEO of the company is a senior advisor to investment outfit Blackstone, which has set up a music rights investment fund with Hipgnosis and bought into the Hipgnosis Song Management company.But that’s a pretty weak connection between the pharma firm and Young.
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