Astrud Gilberto, RIP from Stereophile

[quattro98]

https://www.stereophile.com/content/astrud-gilberto-rip

 

[DVDdoug]

In the recording industry, women have often received the short end of the stick. John Lennon cribbed most of the lyrics for "Imagine" from a Yoko Ono poem but declined to give her a songwriting credit;

Which she copied from The Communist Manifesto.

this didn't get corrected until 2017. In 1996, the Los Angeles Times reported that the three young members of TLC—whose second album, CrazySexyCool, went platinum four times over—received less than 1% of the $175 million revenue their music had generated. The trio declared bankruptcy.

And no males were ever "ripped off"?

 

[JLGF1]

And no males were ever "ripped off"?

Some ended up much worse than just ripped off. Two members of Badfinger come to mind.