Reggae legend Max Romeo files lawsuit over £12.3 million in unpaid royalties

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Reggae legend Max Romeo files lawsuit over unpaid royalties.

Maxwell Livingston Smith AKA Max Romeo has filed a lawsuit against Universal Music Group (UMG) and PolyGram Publishing over unpaid royalties since 1976 in the New York Supreme Court.

The singer, famed for hits such as ‘Chase the Devil’ and ‘One Step Forward’, claims that he’s not received any royalties for the sampling or licensing of his music for almost 50 years. The royalties in question are from albums ‘War Ina Babylon’ and ‘Reconstruction’, released in 1976 and 1977…