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Family of Isaac Hayes threaten Donald Trump with lawsuit over use of song in rallies
Family call for $3m in licensing fees stemming from Trump’s frequent use of the Hayes-penned Sam & Dave track Hold On, I’m Comin’
The family of late soul and funk singer Isaac Hayes has ordered Donald Trump to stop using the Hayes-penned song Hold On, I’m Comin’ at campaign rallies. The Smiths’s Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want, a naked and vulnerable plea, was played at a rally in January, prompting the band’s Johnny Marr to write: “I never in a million years would’ve thought this could come to pass. Consider this shit shut right down right now.” Michael Stipe of REM said “do not use our music or my voice for your moronic charade of a campaign,” after It’s the End of the World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine) – a cheerily apocalyptic song – was used in 2015.
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