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}} "Bitter Sweet Symphony" is a song by English alternative rock band The Verve, and is the lead track on their third studio album, ''Urban Hymns'' (1997). It is based on an Andrew Loog Oldham orchestral version of The Rolling Stones' song, "The Last Time" from which it samples a main theme, and involved some legal controversy surrounding a plagiarism charge as a result. "Bitter Sweet Symphony" was released on 16 June 1997 by Hut Recordings as the first single from the album, reaching number two on the UK Singles Chart and stayed in the chart for three months.〔("The Verve's bitter sweet career" ). BBC News. Retrieved 8 March 015〕 The song's momentum built slowly in the U.S. throughout the latter months of 1997, ultimately leading to a CD single release on 3 March 1998 by Virgin Records America, helping the song to reach number 12 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100.〔( Billboard Hot 100 (line 17) ). The bestsongsever.com〕 The song's music video, which received heavy rotation on MTV, focuses on Richard Ashcroft lip-synching the song while walking down a busy London pavement, oblivious to what is going on around and refusing to change his stride or direction throughout.〔(Verve Single Tops Charts But Success Is Bittersweet ) Rolling Stone. Retrieved 11 February 2012〕〔Craig McLean (14 Jan 2006) ("Still crazy" ) The Telegraph. Retrieved 11 February 2012〕 At the 1998 Brit Awards, "Bitter Sweet Symphony" was nominated for Best British Single, and at the 1998 MTV Video Music Awards, the song was nominated for Video of the Year, Best Group Video, and Best Alternative Video.〔(The Brit Awards: The Verve ) Brits.co.uk. Retrieved 11 February 2012〕〔(1998 MTV Video Music Awards ) Rock on the Net. Retrieved 11 February 2012〕 In 1999, the song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song.〔(41st Grammy Awards - 1999 ) Rock on the Net. Retrieved 12 February 2012〕 ==Song credits== Although the song's lyrics were written by Verve vocalist Richard Ashcroft, its distinctive passage for strings was sampled from the 1965 Andrew Oldham Orchestra symphonic recording of "The Last Time", arranged and written by David Whitaker, inspired by the 1965 Rolling Stones' song of the same title.〔() Sound On Sound. Retrieved 19 March 2014〕〔() The Guardian. Retrieved 19 March 2014〕 Originally, The Verve had negotiated a licence to use a five-note sample from the Oldham recording, but former Stones manager Allen Klein (who owned the copyrights to the band’s pre-1970 songs) claimed that The Verve broke the agreement and used a larger portion.〔(The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony: the controversy )〕〔(Superswell.com: "Horror Stories of Sampling" )〕 Despite its original lyrics and string intro (by Wil Malone and Ashcroft), the music of "Bitter Sweet Symphony" was sampled from the Oldham track, which led to a lawsuit with ABKCO Records, Klein's holding company, and eventually settled out of court. The Verve relinquished all of their royalties to Klein, owner of ABKCO Records, whilst songwriting credits were changed to Jagger/Richards/Ashcroft. The Verve bassist Simon Jones said, "We were told it was going to be a 50/50 split, and then they saw how well the record was doing. They rung up and said we want 100 percent or take it out of the shops, you don't have much choice."〔Powell, Betsy. (MusicSaves.org: "Bitter, Sweet Success" )〕 After losing the composer credits to the song, Ashcroft commented, "This is the best song Jagger and Richards have written in 20 years",〔http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6596227/bitter_sweet_symphony 〕 noting it was their biggest UK hit since "Brown Sugar".〔 On Ashcroft's return to touring, the song traditionally ended the set list. Ashcroft also reworked the single for ''VH2 Live'' for the music channel VH1, stripping the song of its strings. Ashcroft is quoted as saying during the show: "It's very interesting stripping that song down and actually taking away all the strings, and just taking it down to the chords and my lyrics and my melody, and doing that kinda version it becomes much more bluesy. Also shows that ultimately take away the dressing, take away the strings, take away the sample, there's an actual song there."〔 VH2. Retrieved 10 March 2012〕 In a Cash for Questions interview with ''Q'' magazine published in January 1999, Keith Richards was asked if he thought it was harsh taking all The Verve's royalties from "Bitter Sweet Symphony". He replied, "I'm out of whack here, this is serious lawyer shit. If The Verve can write a better song, they can keep the money." In an interview with ''Uncut'' Magazine, Oldham stated, "As for Richard Ashcroft, well, I don't know how an artist can be severely damaged by that experience. Songwriters have learned to call songs their children, and he thinks he wrote something. He didn't. I hope he's got over it. It takes a while."〔(Rolling Stones' manager derides The Verve ) ''NME.com'', October 7, 2008. Retrieved February 1, 2015.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bitter Sweet Symphony」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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