The Police, for instance, fought tooth and nail over who would get the B side—because, of course, if you sold a million singles, even the guy who wrote the B side reaped a royalty reward. Well, we had zero hit singles to worry about, so it was easy for us to take the high road, but regardless, hearing that reinforced a decision we were about to take: from A Farewell to Kings onward, every song would be divided equally amongst the three of us, all for one and one for all, a working democracy. For the rest of our career we would never have to talk about that crap again. And to a great degree it
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