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EMI Music Publishing is aiming for a Christmas success story after penning a deal with Sony BMG fourth-quarter priorities The Priests.
The tie-up with father Martin O'Hagan, his brother Eugene and their one- time school friend David Delargy includes the 16 works on their forthcoming self-titled debut album, which will be released by Epic on November 24.
Although the album includes such hymns as Abide With Me and O Holy Night, rather than any new compositions, the trio can claim the songwriting as the works' authorship is described as "traditional".
"Basically, they're down as the writers of the songs, even though they didn't write them," says EMI Music Publishing senior vice president A&R administration and catalogue co-ordination Fran Malyan who describes the deal as "quite possibly the oddest ...