![]() It was exactly what he tried to do to Fluke and, by extension, millions of American women who use birth control. Shame is a tactic that Limbaugh is familiar with, of course. In other words, Limbaugh is within his legal rights to play his favorite seduction jams of the ‘80s, if he wants to.īut as Iser points out, the decrying from Gabriel, Rush and Thunderbirds singer Kim Wilson, who said he was ‘mortified’ by Limbaugh’s statements, is essentially designed to publicly shame Limbaugh into not playing the music anymore, regardless of legalities. The rock revolutionist on songwriting, quitting smoking, and what she thinks of Rush Limbaugh using her. Iser told Rolling Stone that radio networks such as Premiere, which syndicates ‘The Rush Limbaugh Show,’ all have public performance licenses that allow them access to all songs in the publishing catalogs of ASCAP, BMI and, in the band Rush’s case, SESAC, the Society of European Stage Authors & Composers. Chrissie Hynde of The PretendersSongwriter Interviews. According to attorney Larry Iser, who went to court to remove Jackson Browne’s ‘Running on Empty’ from John McCain’s attack ad on Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election, the use of songs on the radio falls under blanket agreements for ‘public performance.’ Geez, can’t any of them find an original song?īut this flap between the classic rockers and radio’s biggest flap-jaw has a different set of issues to contend with. This underdog anthem was also used in 2008 by Sarah Palin at a North Carolina rally. (Both seemingly ignored the racy ‘make it last all night’ part of the song.) Survivor songwriter Frankie Sullivan filed a lawsuit in January against Newt Gingrich for using ‘Eye of the Tiger’ while stumping, after months of asking the Republican presidential candidate to put it to rest. So far, we’ve seen Tom Petty send a letter to Michele Bachmann, asking her to knock off with playing ‘American Girl.’ By the way, the song was formerly used on the campaign trail by 2008 presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton. Are Wayne and Garth working as Limbaugh’s music programmers?ĭuring any election season, politicians and rock stars will have their scuffles. For the record, Pop & Hiss would like to point out that these songs aren’t exactly fresh. If you watch Limbaugh’s now-infamous remarks, he uses Gabriel’s ‘Sledgehammer’ to introduce his labeling of Fluke as a ‘slut’ and a ‘prostitute.’ As for the others, Rush’s prog epics and the T-Birds’ ‘Tuff Enuff’ have been used on Limbaugh’s show as bumper music for years now.
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