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Who is Richard Lewis Spencer?

Spencer owned the copyright, learned of the sampling only in 1996 and never received royalties. A 2015 GoFundMe raised over £18,000 for him.

Richard Lewis Spencer · bandleader, The Winstons

What it became

  • Wrote Amen, Brother (The Winstons, 1969). Spencer owned the copyright, learned of the sampling only in 1996 and never received royalties. A 2015 GoFundMe raised over £18,000 for him. Source: Wikipedia: Amen break, The Week

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