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TIL until 2019, the Verve was forced to give up all their royalties and music credit rights for their 1997 hit song "Bitter Sweet Symphony" due to copyright dispute with ABKCO Studios head Allen Klein over the band's sampling of the Rolling Stone's "The Last Time" in their music.

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