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The singer in sists he was pressured to do the song, that his record company pushed it on him to get profits from the royalties “A and R (artists’ representatives) people are supposed to be the go between for the company and the ar tist,"” Haggard said in a recent inter view. ‘‘Now they’re pitching songs. ‘It would be wise-to use a Tree song, wouldn't it? that very tune, | was pitched a variety in that raised “It will be wise to That happened to me on of songs and told, eyebrow. manner, have you todo this. Fighting words from the singer of Okie From Muskogee, The Fightin’ Side of Me and, most recently, the an ti-flag burning Me and Crippled Soldiers. He owes CBS one. more record, but Haggard, in a measured, threatening tone, talked of suing to get out of his contract KIND OF MEAN’ You get to a certain level of popularity and it attracts this method It's kind of Colum NEW YORK (AP) Corp. has offered to buy Columbia in the business,"’ he said Japan's Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. for more than $3 billion, reports said Columbia Pictures, company with current including When Harry Met Sally... and Ghostbusters I, declined a movie and television releases to comment on the reports. Nor would Sony officials comment Coca-Cola Co., which owns 49 per cent of Columbia’s stock, said it was aware of the talks between the com panies and that it would consider whatever recommendation may be mean, like the old Mafia days, "You don’t have to do this, but they'll make you wish you had.’ | publicly don't like it. I'd like them to know I’m upset Real upset,"” Roy Wuisch, senior vice-president for CBS Records in Nashville, Tenn., denied Haggard was pressured and write about something if you didn't know anything about it. A whole lot of life we don’t know exists if we don’t cross the bridge.”” Haggard, who's busy touring, has watked-far-to- the other side Prison time, poverty, the early death of his 4ather and years on the road have all 'You get to a certain level of popularity and it attracts this method in the business. It's kind of mean, like the old Mafia days.' — country singer Merle Haggard on pressure to record certain-songs said he was surprised to hear of the singer's complaints. “It certainly struck me as bizarre,” said Wunsch. ‘*Our relationship has generally been good with the artist. 1 was there several months in Reading, Calif., when Merle listened to the nd fell in love with two or three, ainly was never forced to record anything Threats and all, Haggard likes the song’s message of what to do when the job is over and there's no one to go home to. He’s also proud of his own A Thousand Lies Ago, an after-hours weeper about a fealtionship long gone bad ‘Songs are that way,"” he said ‘They kind of mark the period in on lif and one’s experience» You can’t taken their toll. He walks gingerly, and speaks slowly, gazing with weary eyes He was born in Bakersfield, Calif., during the Great Depression, in a makeshift home converted out of a boxcar. By 14, Haggard was laying guitar but w reform schools, also in and out of nd in the late 1950s he was sent to San Quentin for trying to burglarize a roadhouse After being paroled in 1960, Haggard worked {for his brother, an electrical contractor, during the week and played gigs as a sideman on the weekends. He met up with Fuzzy Owens, a local music entrepreneur who owned a small label, Tally Recor ds, Haggard’s breakthrough came in 1963 with All My Friends Are Going to be Strangers, a Top 10country hit In 1966, he had his first No. | song with Swinging Doors and three years later received 10 nominations for Academy of Country and Western Music awards. The Academy named him-best-mate-vocalist in-1966, 1969, 1971 and 1972 DRINKING SONGS Along with a steady repertoire of drinking songs and. rebel’ anthems, Haggard tells of fragile lives, men and women dependent -on luck and the next paycheque.. If We Make It Through December. is a Christmas song without cheer, an unemployed factory worker's lament that he can’t afford a present for his daughter The Way 1 Am, a lovely, aching ballad written by Sonny Throckmor ton, is the flip side to Bruce Springsteen's Thunder Road and its vow of pulling out of a town full of losers. The promise of escaping to bet ter times is gone, never even existed Work, family and community are just facts of life, the singer's only choice “Once in a while a song comes along That's the way I feel,’ or ‘That's a song | wished I had writ where you say, * ten.” Throckmorton wrote some great, great songs and I happened to be lucky and get one It’s like a lot of people, they do what they-have+e-de,”” Haggard con- tinued. ‘They do it because of obligations; their hand is not always willing, sometimes their back gets tired ia purchase rumored made, but declined further comment Columbia triggered a sharp run-up in its stock price Monday when it an nounced it-was“‘in discussions with a third party involving the acquisition for cash’of all of Columbia's outstan ding shares."” The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times reported that the potential buyer was Sony. The papers cited unidentified sources familiear with the negotiations The Journal said Sony had offered $26 to $28 a share for Columbia stock Joel sues ex-manager NEW YORK (AP) Singer Billy Joel is suing his former manager for the equivalent of $108 million Cdn, alleging that he stole millions of dollars and lost millions more in risky invest ments such as horsebreeding Joel's lawyer, Leonard Marks, said the lawsuit was filed Monday in state court against Frank Weber, who was fired Aug, 30, after anaudituncovered the alleged thefts. Weber also was Open 5:30 p.m. Sunday Brunch Joel’s former brother-in-law The lawsuit charges that Weber used Joel’s money in the form of interest free loans; misued his power of attor ney by signing the-singer’s name to documents without his consent; and invested Joet’s money in high-risk ver tures despite the singer’s express in structions to invest conservatively There was_no_answer_at_Weber’s lawyer’s office |9 Lordy, Lordy! Look who's Forty! 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