Poor man has had to struggle through
the years to get paid his royalties and
faced numerous lawsuits and lots of
money pits.
IIRC a record company sued him for
recording a song that they said violated
copyrights, even though the song that
they said he plagiarized was his own
song, written and recorded by himself.
40 or so years ago.
There's always somebody
trying to cut a piece of the other guy's pie