The Lawyers Sleep Tonight
Every once in a while, a corporation does the right thing. Usually, too late, and only after being tortured in the press.
This has finally happened in the case of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” – the famed song that Soloman Linda composed in 1939 but never saw a penny on.
A few years ago, my intrepid friend and music critic Jeff Miller slipped me a Xeroxed copy of Rian Malan‘s compelling Rolling Stone piece from 2000 about how Linda’s song was exploited by everyone but him.
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