Rolling Stones Threaten Trump For Playing Their Song During Campaign

The Rolling Stones (Twitter @RollingStones)

JAKARTA - President Donald Trump's political campaign has never been far from a problem. Most recently, Trump played You Can't Always Get What You Want from legendary band The Rolling Stones as he wraps up his campaign on Saturday, June 27 in Tulsa.

The Rolling Stones and Broadcast Music Inc (BMI) released a statement on Sunday, June 28 asking the President of the United States (US) to stop using the song Stones in the campaign. In addition, Trump has never asked permission legally from the group fronted by Mick Jagger.

BMI is a US stage rights association that deals with music rights and advocacy. Consistently, BMI takes care of things such as lack of permission to use songs. Now, BMI is helping The Rolling Stones remind Trump of this.

Later, if Donald Trump continues to ignore the warnings, the Stones will sue Trump over the embargo and play music that is already licensed. This is not the first time Trump has played The Rolling Stones song without the band's permission.

BMI warns Donald Trump Campaign to stop playing Rolling Stones songs: https://t.co/DWZ26dCglg

- The Rolling Stones (@RollingStones) June 27, 2020

The BMI, which holds the rights to more than 15 million pieces of music, accepted objections and sent a notification letter to Trump that the Rolling Stones' works had been removed from the campaign license. However, the use of the song in the campaign can be permitted if the song writer or publisher approves.

You Can't Always Get What You Want was written by Keith Richards and Mick Jagger so they have the right to report it.

Reporting from the US entertainment page Deadline, BMI is ready to take legal action if Trump uses the song released in 1969 in his campaign.

Not only The Rolling Stones, a number of musicians voiced publicly for Donald Trump to stop using his songs, such as Rihanna, Neil Young, Queen, Pharrell Williams.

Brendon Urie, vocalist of Panic! At the Disco also warned Trump when he played High Hopes at the show in Phoenix last week. He said, “You are not invited. Stop playing my song! "