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From that picture he was obviously younger than I had imagined him to be.

Nobody would have heard of him if the record companies had paid the royalties they owed their artists in the first place.

Maybe Chuck can answer this: I have long wondered why the record companies, who wrote the contracts in the first place, would promise to pay royalties if they had no intention of paying them. It wasn't just the indie labels. It was Klein who determined that RCA had not been paying Sam Cooke what they owed him.

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There was a great-looking party, I'm pretty sure at Klein's, circa 71ish, filmed by both Jonas Mekas (on film) and Shirley Clarke (on a very early B&W video portapak). You can see each other filming in the other's footage. Among the attendees were John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Andy Warhol, Miles Davis. Miles & Lennon shoot hoops - Lennon is terrible and Davis sweeps the floor with him.

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