Sea of ​​Tunes

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Sea of ​​Tunes was an in- house music publisher of the American rock group The Beach Boys .

The company was founded in June 1962 by Murry Wilson and his son Brian Wilson . Both were partners in the publishing house. The Sea of ​​Tunes should manage all the songs composed by the Beach Boys. This related on the one hand to the compositions of Brian Wilson and to the collaborations of Wilson and Mike Love , who wrote the lyrics for many of Wilson's songs. Although Love's rights were also covered by the Sea of ​​Tunes, he was not a partner in the company.

Band manager Murry Wilson took care of the administration. When he was released from his duties as a manager by the band in 1964, he continued to work in the Sea of ​​Tunes until the band founded a successor company in 1966 with Brother Records .

In 1969, Murry Wilson sold the company to A&M Records for USD 750,000 with a forged signature from his son . Murry Wilson did this on the false assumption that the Beach Boys were having financial problems and that the songs would lose value in the future, as the Beach Boys were no longer very successful in the US in 1969. Brian Wilson and Mike Love were indignant about the sale. In the course of the sale it turned out that Murry Wilson had written many of the compositions by Brian Wilson and Mike Love only on Wilson.

Litigation

In 1989, when Brian Wilson began to legalize his past, he sued A&M to get the rights to the songs back. He also filed a lawsuit for damages for lost royalties of USD 100 million. Wilson eventually settled out of court to pay $ 10 million. Since Love and Wilson could not agree on a compensation payment, Love now had to take Wilson to court. He was awarded half of Wilson's compensation payment.

Further information

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1989 ( Memento from July 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Badman; The Definitive Diary of America's Greatest Band
  3. ↑ 1994 ( Memento of April 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

literature

  • Kingsley Abbott, The Beach Boys and Brian Wilson, ISBN 978-3-85445-160-0 , Hanibal, Koch Publishing Group
  • Heroes and Villains: The True Story of the Beach Boys, ISBN 0-306-80647-9 , Publisher: Da Capo Press; Edition: Reprint (September 1995),
  • Badman, Keith (2004). The Beach Boys: The Definitive Diary of America's Greatest Band On Stage and In the Studio. Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-818-4