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"I’ve got a fever, and the only prescription is more greased-up cub scouts…er, um, I mean cowbell! COWBELL!"

[via “The Colbinator”] I knew that Michael “Bad Touch Scout Troop

Leader” Jackson owned the rights to a large chunk of the Beatles’

catalogue, but didn’t know that he had a 50% share in Blue Oyster Cult’s

Don’t Fear the Reaper.

Here’s a list of the other songs for which he is half-owner:

  • ’65 Love Affair, Paul Davis
  • Alone Again, Naturally, Gilbert O’Sullivan
  • Bad Case of Lovin’ You, Robert Palmer
  • Blue Bayou, Roy Orbison
  • Burning Love, Elvis Presley
  • Clones (We’re All), Alice Cooper
  • Crazy, Patsy Cline
  • (I Just) Died In Your Arms, Cutting Crew
  • Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It, Will Smith
  • Here Comes the Night, Them
  • Hit Me With Your Best Shot, Pat Benatar
  • Hush, Deep Purple
  • I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry, Hank Williams Sr.
  • Let It Ride, Bachman-Turner Overdrive
  • Long Tall Sally, Little Richard
  • Positively 4th Street, Bob Dylan
  • Radar Love, Golden Earring
  • Stop Your Sobbing, The Pretenders
  • Sometimes When We Touch, Dan Hill
  • Son of a Preacher Man, Dusty Springfield
  • Suspicious Minds, Elvis Presley
  • Sweetest Taboo, Sade
  • Wonderwall, Oasis
  • You Really Got Me, The Kinks
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