The Police are out to get Sting, with Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers suing their former bandmate over misplaced royalties for the track “Each Breath You Take.”
Sting is listed as a defendant below his actual identify, Gordon Matthew Sumner, alongside his firm Magnetic Publishing Restricted. Through Individuals and The Day by day Mail, he makes £550,000, or about $740,000, from “Each Breath You Take” royalties every year. The track credit just one composer and lyricist, Sting, with Copeland and Summers alleging that they’ve been cheated out of tens of millions of {dollars} of royalties as a result of they didn’t obtain co-writing credit on the track.
“Each Breath You Take” was launched in 1983, changing into the best-selling track of that 12 months and the fifth-highest promoting monitor of the Eighties.
One individual advised The Solar, “This has been coming for fairly a while. Attorneys tried repeatedly to achieve an out-of-court settlement however hit a stalemate. Andy and Stewart determined there was no various than court docket so pressed the button. They are saying they’re owed tens of millions in misplaced royalties.”
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Earlier this 12 months it seemed like a minimum of Sting and Summers had put their disagreements apart, collaborating on a brand new model of “Homicide by Numbers” with Christian McBride. Earlier than that, they hadn’t labored collectively since The Police reunion tour that kicked off in 2007.