The hidden gems

What made old singles so great? Session musicians, that's what. So why are those players finding their royalties disappearing?When I was stacking singles on my Dansette after school, I didn't envisage a time when the musicians who played on them would be pensioners. Half a century after those records rescued me from homework, however, the financial outlook for their makers is bleak, as the copyright on their recordings comes to an end, and the royalties these musicians have been paid are stopped...

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