Ex-Stones manager mocks The Verve

Ex-Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham has blasted The Verve for sampling Mick Jagger's band on their hit 'Bitter Sweet Symphony'.

The Urban Hymns track used a hook from the Andrew Oldham Orchestra's recording of 'The Last Time', initiating a protracted legal case over royalties.

When the case concluded, it was ruled that the Stones should receive all of the royalty payments from the single as Richard Ashcroft's group had used "too much" of the sample.

Speaking to Uncut about Ashcroft, Loog Oldham said: "Songwriters have learned to call songs their children, and he thinks he wrote something. He didn't. I hope he's got over it. It takes a while."