Electric Avenue singer Eddy Grant says he took Donald Trump to court over ‘lack of respect’

Singer Eddy Grant reveals he took Donald Trump to court 'over lack of respect'ITV

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00:00 suing Donald Trump because he nicked your song, basically.

00:02 He used your song in his 2020 campaign.

00:04 A friend of yours called you up and said,

00:06 "You know, Trump's using your material."

00:08 And, you know, you've loathed Trump.

00:10 So you've taken him to court, haven't you?

00:12 Well, I took him to court

00:15 because of the lack of respect, basically.

00:18 Didn't ask, just took it.

00:19 No, and he was doing that to lots of other artists.

00:23 He'd done it to the Stones and so on.

00:25 But they don't have that kind of control over their copyright.

00:29 Like I have over mine.

00:30 And you've got people.

00:32 I mean, it's funny, John Lennon once said in a conversation

00:35 about whether he should get into a legal argument with somebody,

00:37 he said, "Don't you have people that you pay

00:39 "to talk about these kinds of things,

00:41 "that talk about these kinds of things to the people that I pay

00:43 "that talk about these kinds of things?"

00:45 And that's what you've got.

00:46 Correct.

00:47 You've got representation.

00:48 Correct.

00:49 And as a matter of fact, it's sub judicis still.

00:52 And so I don't talk about it.

00:56 The lawyers talk about it.

00:58 And who wants to talk about Donald anyway?