But I would guess it's very complicated.

...but I feel sure he doesn't like it.

That is no way for such a wonderful musician to have ended up.

If everyone who had bought a Stones album with him on gave him a quid he'd be sorted for life. A better man than me should start a fund.

Indeed, Ron Wood didn't become a full 'partner' until the 90s (or even later), so I imagine Taylor was just a session musician during his tenure and was paid accordingly.

suspects did any musician make any money out of rock and pop? Or does bad news just travel fastest?

I'd have thought he was due at least a co-credit on Time Waits For No One as it's his guitar work that makes the song.

Not. Sometimes they hid behind Allen Klein but sometimes they don't bother.

Just ask Richard Ashcroft.

Sounds like they need a HR dept.

This remind me how I felt when I discovered Neil Innes didn't get any money from me buying all The Rutles stuff I had over the years.

Boo!!! to 'Sir' Mick Jughead!

that if he hadn't blown all the money he did get on drugs and pies he could afford a lawyer and an accountant to sort the issue.

If he signed some oppressive contract back in the day, and Jagger/Richards are being assholes then speak to a lawyer, not the Mail on Sunday, and refer that lawyer to the recently revised composer credits for 'Whiter Shade of Pale', and to Pete Best's pay out on the HIHJ's 'Anthology 1'.

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Mick Taylor Rubbishes Stones Story
16th September 2009

Mick Taylor has angrily rejected suggestions that he is poor and is planning to sue the Rolling Stones.

Speaking to the NME, Mick Taylor’s manager Jeff Allen revealed that not only is the story that appeared in the Mail On Sunday not true but that Mick still has a very good relationship with his former bandmates.

Allen tells the NME that the guitarist was “horrified” to read the report and that he had no plans to take legal action.

"He certainly didn't say that he was going to sue the Stones. Mick's got a very good relationship with the Stones," Allen explained.

"In fact, the last time we met up with them, him and Keith [Richards, guitarist] were like long-lost lovers – hugging each other and happy to see each other. When Mick was ill either six or eight weeks ago with some kind of chest complaint, Mick Jagger had his office phone up to see what was going on, and then he phoned up the hospital just to check on Mick because they were worried about him. So there's absolutely no animosity between Mick and the Stones."

And to drive a nail into the Mail On Sunday’s report, not only is Mick still friendly with the Stones but he is definitely not destitute.

"You can imagine the shock, horror and disbelief when that article came out in the Daily Mail. The emphasis of the article was that Mick was some kind of run-down, down-and-out tramp living in Suffolk. The reality is Mick's having the house done up," he said. "Mick is living in Holland at the moment with his girlfriend."

Mick Taylor is due to tour with the Mick Taylor Band later this year, with dates in Germany and France already scheduled and others to be announced.

(NME)