Pretty Vacant — who wrote it?

ISWC T9000188329 Recorded by Sex Pistols and others✓ No disputed shares

Also registered as: PRETI VAGANTI · LOTS OF FUN · LIVING IN NW3 4TR · LIVING IN NW3 4JR

Pretty Vacant was written by John Lydon, Stephen Jones, Paul Thomas Cook, Glen Matlock. US mechanical royalties are collected by BMG Gold Songs (50%), WC Music Corp. (25%), Universal Music-careers (25%).

Sex Pistols

Writers

credited writers

Publishers & admins

3 collecting groups

Linked recordings

1,493

matched to this work

Share registered

100%

fully registered

Unclaimed

—

below 1% threshold

Who collects the mechanical royalties

US mechanical shares as registered at The MLC · each writer’s chain: writer → publisher → administrator.

BMG Gold Songs 50%BMG Gold Songs · 50%

WC Music Corp. 25%WC Music Corp. · 25%

Universal Music-careers 25%Universal Music-careers · 25%

BMG Gold Songs 50% WC Music Corp. 25% Universal Music-careers 25%

- Warner Chappell Music LTD
  WC Music Corp. · Sub-publisher
  25%
- Universal Music-careers
  Universal Music-careers · Admin
  25%
- A Thousand Miles Long
  BMG Gold Songs · Admin
  25%
- BMG Gold Songs
  BMG Gold Songs
  25%
John LydonUnclaimed
IPI 00024585092 · Composer / Lyricist
No publisher collecting

Writer / Publisher / Administrator	IPI	Collected by	Role	Share
▸Glen Matlock	00024437010		Composer / Lyricist	25%
Warner Chappell Music LTD	00160187388	WC Music Corp.	Sub-publisher	25%
▸Writer not listed	—		—	25%
Universal Music-careers	00539732230	Universal Music-careers	Admin	25%
▸Stephen Jones	00024562795		Composer / Lyricist	25%
A Thousand Miles Long	00126909366	BMG Gold Songs	Admin	25%
▸Paul Thomas Cook	00024636790		Composer / Lyricist	25%
BMG Gold Songs	00601191692	BMG Gold Songs		25%
John Lydon	00024585092	No publisher collecting	Composer / Lyricist	Unclaimed

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