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Rollers producer set to see day in High Court.(News)
London's High Court will play host to an epic "David v Goliath" battle next year when former Bay City Rollers producer Phil Wainman faces up to Sony BMG over a long-standing royalties battle.
Wainman, who produced two of the band's mid-Seventies albums and three hit singles, including the chart-topping Bye Bye Baby, launched a claim for unpaid royalties last summer.
Now the case--a rare example of an individual taking on a major record group in the courts--is due to be heard on May 15.
In his claim, being handled by royalty recovery expert David Morgan, Wainman says the major--then just BMG--stopped paying his royalties around 1979 and to that point had been receiving cheques of about 150,000 [pounds sterling] every six months.
Wainman says the record group has "had long enough to pay me", adding that he has been amassing a private fighting fund to face the court battle. Wainman, who after producing acts such as the Boomtown Rats and Alex Harvey started a successful property ...
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