The creators of This is Spinal Tap have been paid almost nothing
:-( that sucks.<p>One that surprised me not long ago was that The Verve never got anything from Bittersweet Symphony (ironically). They had sampled a song that itself was a cover of a Rolling Stones tunes from 20 years earlier. The Stones demanded (and got) all the royalties.<p>Fun fact - the volume on BBC iPlayer goes up to 11 :-)