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Cher has won a lawsuit against Mary Oliver – the widow of Sonny Bono – over royalties in relation to the songs released by Sonny And Cher.As part of their divorce settlement on 1978, the ‘Believe’ singer was granted a permanent 50 per cent cut of all publishing revenues of the songs that Sonny and Cher had recorded together during the time that they were married.After Bono’s death in 1998, Cher continued to receive her royalty payments from the late singer’s estate up until 2016. This ended when Oliver argued that she did not need to pay the pop icon her royalties due to the copyright law’s termination right — a provision of federal law that allows songwriters and their heirs to win back control of their intellectual property rights decades after they gave them away.Per Stereogum, in 2021 Bono’s estate stopped paying Cher her royalties, which led her to file a lawsuit later that year.Now, in a decision issued yesterday (May 29), Judge John A.

Secret Machines have announced a new EP titled ‘Day 21’ alongside a reissue of their 2008 EP ‘Dreaming Of Dreaming’ featuring a track with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds‘ Jim Sclavunos.The duo of Brandon Curtis and Josh Garza have announced that both EPs will be released on July 15. They’ve also released the title track from the ‘Day 21’ EP and ‘Dreaming of Dreaming (Mavrogeorgis and Sclavunos Version)’ from the reissue.Per Stereogum, Curtis said in a statement that ‘Day 21’ was “a bit of a departure” for the band.