Home » Entertainment » Index – Culture – It’s a reverse bank robbery! János Kóbor about the Australian appearance of the Pearly Haired Girl

Index – Culture – It’s a reverse bank robbery! János Kóbor about the Australian appearance of the Pearly Haired Girl

The musicians of the band with a long history have a lot of experience with the royalties of Omega songs. The biggest port-stirring unauthorized use is related to the work of American world star Kanye West. The rapper was released in 2013 New Slaves used an 85 – second snippet in Pearl-haired girl from his original sixty-eight recordings.

– In more serious cases, such as when an American series was used without permission Live until then English version of our song entitled, we always manage to reach a post-agreement that seems correct. These are either Western European or American productions.

Moreover, which is almost miraculous, in the last year or two the Russians have been appearing on their own.


Okay, they haven’t been forced to do that for fifty years, but recently the Woman on summer nightst and a Gamma policeman they were asked in advance for a major film to be made, says János Kóbor.

The omegas basically don’t even mind, or even are especially happy to see, any of their songs pop up in a remote part of the world. They’ve already heard the Pearl-haired Girl’s tune in a heraldic ad for a North American hockey season on a string organ.

– If in question in advertising the original track was used, so it’s not a rework, it’s worth moving on, as the original recording is the most valuable post-use of the tracks to date, explains the Omega singer.

In the case of copyright disputes, they can only act as authors or performers, but in the case of the rights of the original recording, the publisher also enters it as the rightholder. At that time, they agreed with Hungaroton Publishing and later with their legal successors that in such a case they would represent the musicians. This is also the case with Kanye West.

– That was an interesting story, too. We didn’t even understand that he had met our song as he was working in a completely different genre. We searched and it turned out that when

Kanye West toured Chicago, visiting a Polish restaurant where our song was just playing. He asked the waiter what it was. The Polish was outraged that this guy didn’t know Omega!

Somehow they got it, they made their own track that had ours built into it, and with that they announced the new record. When we applied, there was no problem, they said they were already waiting, let’s say what we wanted. I asked a little bit of the outside buddies from Brian May to the Scorpions about what the habit was at that time. They said there was no custom. Let’s say a big one, they say a smaller one, and then we’ll agree. That’s how it happened.

In the end, he promised not to leave themselves this time either:

– As for Australian advertising, a bank only has money for royalties. If not, it’s a bank robbery – the bank robbed Omega. Maybe we’ll have a chance to revenge, too, but we won’t go to them to rob a bank.

(Cover image: János Kóbor at the concert of the Omega band at the Papp László Budapest Sports Arena on November 8, 2019. Photo: Balázs Mohai / MTI)

– .

Leave a Comment

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.