Rockstar is quite a rich company, and it’s strange what a modest gratuity they offered the authors of a once popular hit. Apparently some boss decided to save himself.
Like this, Rockstar made over 8.5 billion dollars on GTA 5. That’s enough. Now GTA 6 is in the works and the hot topic will be music, as it happened that the remastered collection (horrible, by the way) GTA 3, Vice City and San Andreas had their music removed due to license expiration. And at the same time it made up 50% of the atmosphere. So Rockstar apparently wants to secure lifetime rights to the music used for any future products. And now the goal. The people at the company checked out Heaven 17’s Temptation, which (I can’t verify) was supposed to be a big hit in the 80s and made an offer to the writers. So far so good.
Band member Martyn Ware was understandably thrilled when he got the email with the offer and already saw himself in the spotlight as a famous artist with a big income. Until he got to the payment. Rockstar offered him and two other members only $7,500 (each) for lifetime rights and no percentage of sales or anything. Of course, Martyn didn’t accept this offer and literally sent the Rockstar misers to the first… you know where. That they would have to save so much in Rockstar?
Source: pctuning.cz
