There is little debate about the song's origins. Sting has always said he wrote the words, chords and melody in one burst of inspiration while staying in Jamaica. His original demo is almost identical to the released version on the band's Synchronicity album. What Summers and Copeland now argue is that their contributions - in particular Summers' distinctive guitar arpeggio riff - transformed the track from a rough sketch into a timeless hit. Summers has described his part as rescuing the song from "going in the trash".
The truth is that the stadium offered FIFA many, many options, and FIFA rejected them all. Until they got to the point of 'you pay the equivalent of the most expensive ticket in the stadium for each seat and go ahead.' And it seems that's where a solution will finally be achieved. That is, the stadium will have to pay FIFA for our seats out of its own pocket.
has confirmed that her former fiancé, Orlando Bloom, is the true owner of a $15 million Montecito mansion that has been at the center of a yearslong legal battle between the pop star and an ailing Army veteran who was understood to have sold it to her in 2020.
In the suit, filed in London High Court, guitarist Andy Summers and drummer Stewart Copeland claim they never got songwriting credit on their band's 1983 single, one of the biggest hits of the '80s and famously sampled on Diddy and Faith Evans' "I'll Be Missing You." They allege in the suit that they have never been paid for their writing contributions.
Under the Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023, 100% of service charges collected in a venue must be shared among workers in a fair and transparent way, and employees have the right to know how tips are allocated and distributed.
Lisa Flaherty stormed out of the packed room, visibly angered. The suggestion that she had been in a relationship with Joseph Grogan since she was 16 had caused his family "endless anxiety". Solicitor and senior counsel Damien Tansey noted, "It puts Joe Grogan into the realm of a paedophile."
The owner of a multi-million-pound penthouse on Park Lane has been engaged in an eight-year legal battle over a lift installation agreement. The dispute escalated to include allegations of leaky roofs and disruptive noise from the lift.
We are going to go with 'Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport.' This is really leaning into Oakland and putting Oakland first, said Director of Aviation Craig Simon.
One of Engelhorn's lawyers, Tony Williams, says the heir was "tricked" into signing the gift paperwork when Bolog gave it to her one morning while she was vacationing on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.
I worked my whole life in this shop. My father put his whole life into this shop, it's internationally well-respected and in almost five and a half years the shop is no more.
The nonprofit Bryant Park Corporation is removing Ark Restaurants as the Grill's operator in favor of chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten, igniting a bitter legal battle.