Judgment in the Supertramp dispute: Ex-singer Roger Hudgson has to share royalties

Former Supertramp singer Roger Hodgson (75) has to share the income from song diesel with three of his ex-bandmates. Like the news agency, a US Court of Appeal decided on Wednesday in favor of the former band members Dougie Thomson (74), John Helliwell (80) and Bob Siebenberg (75). Hodgson is said to have paid nothing to her since 2018.

The Court of Appeal raised a judgment of a California jury. This had decided in 2024 that Hodgon’s Delicate Music company was allowed to end the royaltial contract. Instead, it says that Delicate Music has to share the royalties with Hodgson’s former bandmates as long as they are achieved. In the process, Helliwell, Thomson and Siebenberg are said to have requested around $ 1.3 million (equivalent to around 1.1 million euros).

“The plaintiffs demand that the defendants continue to hand in a small part of Supertramp’s songwriting agents until the band’s songs no longer generate income,” said appeal judge Kim McLane Wardlaw. cited. “However, the accused believe that from now on they are no longer obliged to pay royalties,” she said. The special thing about it: Wardlaw incorporated the titles of the Supertramp songs “Give A Little Bit” and “From now on”.

The text of the judge in the original: “Plaintziffs ask that defendants continu to ‘give a little bit’ of supertramp’s songwramp’s songalts until the band’s songs cease generating revenue. But defendants Believe that from Now on, ‘They are no longer obligated to share royalties.”

Supertramp became known with songs such as “The Logical Song” (1979) or “It’s Raining Again” (1982). Co -founder Hodgson sang and wrote from 1969 to 1983 for the rock group. Dougie Thomson, John Helliwell and Bob Siebenberg joined the early 1970s. After the original dissolution in 1988, Thomson was no longer involved in Reunions.