In a recent interview with the “Music And Me” podcast, Glenn Hughes confirmed that his dispute over the royalties to the DEEP PURPLE material that he co-wrote while a member of the band more than four decades ago has finally been cleared up. “As we sit here speaking, it’s three months ago, it’s all been resolved,” he told music journalist and presenter Kylie Olsson. “It’s taken a long time. It’s not really something I’ve spoke about in the press.
“People, of course, always ask me: ‘How come you didn’t write on ‘Burn’?’ And I don’t really go out of my way to give the definitive answer, but the fact is I was signed to another company,” he continued. “And if you look at [THE BEATLES’] George Harrison and [LED ZEPPELIN’s] Robert Plant, they were off a couple of records too — Robert being ‘Led Zeppelin I’. It’s the same scenario. I decided I’d leave my name off to… take care of business, if you will. At a young age as well — I couldn’t believe I did that.”
According to Hughes, he doesn’t harbor any bitterness toward the DEEP PURPLE camp over being inappropriately compensated for his work on the four albums he appeared on: “Burn”, “Stormbringer”, “Come Taste The Band” and “Made In Europe”. “I never hold a resentment,” he said. “Because the resentments are about people who are no longer with us. Let’s just say that I was mismanaged — young and mismanaged — and I was promised things that… Being an only child living with his mum and dad up in the north [of England], I was offered a handshake, and I took it.
“The thing that’s kept me alive is I’ve never held a resentment against anyone,” he explained. “Never. Resentments would kill me — it would take me out drinking, it would take me out cavorting. I never held a resentment. And now, 44 years later, it’s been resolved. It’s a long time.”
