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HAS AN RIAA MEMBER BEEN SCREWING AN ARTIST FOR OVER SIXTY YEARS?: We don't know, but we could be a lot closer to finding out, as a court in California has ruled that documents covering Bing Crosby's affairs can be revealed in public, throwing some light on the case brought against MCA by Bing's heirs.

They believe that MCA - part of Universal (and don't you love that White Christmas and Thug Love are both part of the same multinational sludge-brand) - has been diddling Crosby on money due under contracts dating back to the Second World War. MCA deny this, of course, and they wanted access to details of an audit:

Steve Kang, a lawyer representing MCA, said: "The documents were communications between not so much Bing Crosby himself but between his business manager Basil Grillo and also Crosby's accountants.

"They concerned an audit that Bing Crosby was doing in the late 1950s and actually we're convinced that the issues they discussed in the audit and resolved are the same issues that the plaintiffs are raising today."

Let's just look at that first sentence, though, shall we? "not so much communications between Bing Crosby himself" - yes, it's probably likely that Bing wasn't sending himself memos at that stage.

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