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Pay you back your 750,000 pounds
British tabloid Daily Mail reports that Blackmore is suing HEC Enterprises and Deep Purple (Overseas) for £750,000 in royalties owed to him.
Now, bear in mind that the article starts with the claim that he helped to write a song called Black Knight and left the band 40 years ago, so all the usual caveats of the depth of research in tabloid journalism apply here.
According to the article, Gillan, Glover, Lord, and Paice have successfully sued both management companies in 2003 and reached a settlement, but Blackmore was not involved. He is now pursuing a similar claim on his own. The figures mentioned are:
- £102,318 from HEC for “incorrect adjustments”, failure to “report some publishing income” and application of charges “in excess of agreed limits”;
- £607,797 from DP(O) for overcharging, failure to report income, and using incorrect exchange rate (both companies are based in the UK, while he’s been living in the US since the early 70s);
- £43,400 as costs for the audit
The article also states that a former director of both HEC and DP(O) admitted last November that £370,561 was due to Blackmore, but later revised this number to £480,638.
This concludes our laundry airing for today.
Thanks to Andrey Gusenkov for the info.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
As Gillan once said ” banjo players”………
July 12th, 2015 at 16:46the error might stem from the fact that in the early years HEC was the company and the roalty issue relates to that period
July 12th, 2015 at 16:48It is the newspaper equiivalent of Fox News in the UK. Just a shame that the reporter did not look up Wikipedia or the website.
July 12th, 2015 at 16:59RB is just a mercantilist of the music business.. Well, this is his job ! Is his way of living .. is lawyers talking now !!
July 12th, 2015 at 17:15Meat for lawyers…
July 12th, 2015 at 17:58LoL
July 12th, 2015 at 18:27I wouldn’t believe the Daily Fail if it said tomorrow is Monday
July 12th, 2015 at 18:51Your caption here sucks bad!
July 12th, 2015 at 19:45And the mention of Black Knight is nothing on the wrong year of the Guinness Book and the fact that Bloom is not Ritchie’s biographer. It’s been spelled “Knight” countless times, just as Candice Knight has. They should put everything through a fact check machine, and their caption is worse than yours, I’ll put it that way. 😀 Let’s get real, publicity stunt written all over this for his supposed comeback which I’m quite sure will feature Candice in one light or another(mark me word she will be there). Perhaps the kids as well.
July 12th, 2015 at 19:49“When you are in the music business, the first thing you need
is a good lawyer…” (Jon Lord, R.I.P.)
For all the others: Have a nice Day!
July 12th, 2015 at 21:55We talk about how the song goes in this article? I only know one song DP – “Black night” only.
July 13th, 2015 at 06:47I don’t blame RB. I would have done exactly the same thing. He should get the money he deserves and rightly so especially since the others in the band have got their settlement over 10 years ago. Nothing wrong with getting the money owed by the company. Don’t think anyone here would accept working and not get paid.. I wouldn’t that’s for sure
July 13th, 2015 at 08:55… yeah … thats Rock´N´Roll … 😉
LOL
Chears
LLRnR
Kraatzy
July 13th, 2015 at 09:17Very simple…If RB is owed money then he has every right to pursue his options
July 13th, 2015 at 11:19This is the whole thing, Ritchie is just suing for his share that the rest of DP already got in 2003. There is nothing more to read into it. Nobody’s biz but his own here. He is just suing them much later than the other’s in Purple did. Nothing more to it. The rest of the article is absolutely useless trash.
“Blackmore has filed suit against HEC Enterprises and Deep Purple (Overseas), after an audit of both discovered unreported royalties totaling a little more than £700,000 ($1.09 million), with the bulk of that sum coming from Deep Purple (Overseas). Adding in legal costs, Blackmore is suing for £750,000 ($1.16 million).
Back in 2003, the other members of Deep Purple’s 1969-73 lineup — Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord and Ian Paice — settled with the two companies without Blackmore’s involvement. He says he’s entitled to an equal share — one-fifth of up to 85 percent of the income from 14 albums. This includes their landmark 1972 record, Machine Head, which included “Smoke on the Water” and “Highway Star.”
July 13th, 2015 at 15:15Early retirement if RB is successful. Unless Candice wants to use it for cosmetic surgeries in The Big Apple.
July 13th, 2015 at 17:35Perhaps the journalist was thinking of the man (knight) in black, or in A Knight in York, or in Black Night, or in Nights in (Black) Satin, who knows… Anyways, perhaps the (black) hands of Ritchie’s in-laws are behind all this. One need not be a lawyer from (New) York to ascertain that debts have an expiration date behind which it’s bye bye to all I owed you…
July 13th, 2015 at 18:25I’ve never heard ‘Black Knight’. I know ‘Kill the King’ was about chess so maybe it’s in a similar vein?
July 13th, 2015 at 19:47Why shouldn’t he? If anything he showed class and restraint (or an plain old disinterest) by not jumping on it when the rest of the band did years ago. In regards to the rude post above… talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
July 14th, 2015 at 03:25Hey, RB should be paid for what he’s’ accomplished. Im sure every musician at that level has had to sue management or a record company at some point
July 14th, 2015 at 18:55“Blackmore’s financial situation is not known, but he has recently suggested he might be going back on tour. The four-times married guitarist plays in a folk band called Blackmore’s Night, formed with his girlfriend Candice Night.”
LOL. They should have added little Ian’s one time quip: “And managed by her mother, so I’m sure it’s all very professional and such.”
I saw him on Saturday at a gig. He sure looked hungry. Poor guy. The current Ms Blackmore did point out though that “the road to the altar was the longest, wasn’t it?”, adding helpfully “Or is it a breeze once you do it the 4th time?” Herr Blackmore responded rather tight-lipped: “I got used to it.”
Oh, Autumn and Rory mounted the stage too, once dad had left in a huff (no encore in Niedernhausen) due to this hot aummer night’s tuning problems and a faulty input jack on his guitar. Some things never change with him.
July 14th, 2015 at 23:07Sell the mansion in Spain instead of renting it out, and pay the man!
July 15th, 2015 at 08:09Ritchie earned that money. He has every right to it!
July 15th, 2015 at 12:28In the meantime some others are still enhancing Blackers royalties.
New York 2015
http://www.guitars101.com/forums/f145/deep-purple-2015-07-14-lewiston-ny-flac-aud-202813.html
July 17th, 2015 at 16:44