From: lcargill99@comcast.com   
      
   The old geezer wrote:   
   > Don’t really know.  Michael Jackson outbid Paul McCartney for the   
   > Beatles catalog.  Don’t know who has it now but have heard “Come   
   > Together” backing some ads.  Murray Wilson sold the Beach Boys   
   > catalog. The question remains, Why would anyone sell the rights to   
   > their music?   
   >   
      
      
   Money.   
      
   There's a biopic of the band Kansas, and Don Kirshner wouldn't have   
   signed them without getting their publishing. So we ( I anyway ) know   
   who they are, they made a lot of money from that one mistake.   
      
   It worked out.   
      
   --   
   Les Cargill   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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