Twisted Tales: The Inimitable Tom Waits Takes On Imitators

Filed under: Twisted TalesWhen Tom Waits shambled into court in the spring of 1990, the jury was clueless. "The first time I saw him, I thought this was a criminal case and he was a criminal," recalled one juror.But the disheveled-looking witness was actually the plaintiff, and he was in court to protect a multimillion-dollar asset: his own voice. For years, advertisers had been in the habit of hiring musicians to record jingles that sounded suspiciously like well-known popular singers. When Bru...

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