David Whitaker

Composer and arranger of 60s French pop hits, horror film scores and 'audio homages' to the Stones and the Beach BoysWhen the Verve's Bittersweet Symphony became one of pop's more famous copyright cases in the late 1990s, it was widely known that 100% of the song's writing credit had to be given to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. However, the distinctive, stately strings that underpinned the Verve's hit were not from a Rolling Stones record. They had been sampled from a radical rearrangement of ...

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