Michael Jackson estate to pay Paul Anka half song?s profits
Ξ October 13th, 2009 | → Comments Off | ∇ I Never Heard, Michael Jackson, This Is It |
<p>Michael Jackson’s estate will pay half of the profits it reaps from his new song, This Is It, to Paul Anka.
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<p>Anka hit the airwaves immediately after the song’s release yesterday to claim his authorship as a co-writer with Jackson of a song with the title I Never Heard in the 1980s.
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<p>This Is It is a prelude to a movie and a two-disc album of the same title due out on October 26.
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<p>Anka, who declared the track was “exactly the same song” as I Never Heard, threatened to sue before the estate’s executors moved to assuage him. “We acknowledge that Michael and Paul wrote this song together,” said John Branca.
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<p>John McClain, the estate’s other executor and a co-producer of the album, said of the song: “[It] only defines, once again, what the world already knows – that Michael is one of God’s greatest gifts.”</p>
<br />Source: Splash News