Bitter Sweet Symphony by Richard Ashcroft

Bitter Sweet Symphony is the first song on Mick Jagger and Keith Richards' third full-length album Urban Hymns release in 1997. Richard Ashcroft looped four bars of a cheesy orchestral cover of a Rolling Stones semi-cover of a definitive staple singer's version of a gospel standard then dumped 500 tons of transcendent on top of that sample along with his band. Alan Klein who controlled much of the Rolling Stones catalog at this time refused to clear the Bitter Sweet Symphony sample unless Mick and Keith got all the credits and all the money. The song is about what happened to the guy who wrote the song after he wrote the song.