The Richest Songs in the World

00:05:51 returned from the battlefields of World War II.

00:09:19 Well, it wasn't a lot then, to be honest, but, every little helps, eh?

00:12:46 And...

00:16:33 Do you think you're nastier than the average rap band?

00:19:41 but it's as precise as anyone's going to get.

00:23:07 ♪ Every smile you fake, every claim You stake, I'll be watching you... ♪

00:26:22 the riff, the little hooky bit... not necessarily... they don't want

00:29:31 ♪ It's cold outside... ♪

00:33:03 Santa Claus Is Coming To Town has been recorded

00:36:29 One of the songs recorded was Brown Eyed Girl

00:40:08 King travelled from his home in New York to the Brill Building

00:44:25 was used as the soundtrack to a cult British TV ad for Levi's Jeans.

00:48:28 that didn't have a song in it, it was regarded... You couldn't do it.

00:52:05 Companies like this have to pay a license which covers all

00:55:35 I don't know, you know, as you say, I dreamed it

00:59:04 That rankled with him for a long, long time.

01:02:42 We want to feel that our heartbreak isn't just completely insignificant.

01:06:06 That's why we never listened to anything more.

01:09:06 on both sides of the Atlantic.

01:11:55 I guess, I mean, Adele would be the other one, of course.

01:15:43 Incredibly, there's a version in Swahili.

01:19:15 Nor is it a piece of wartime propaganda like the deservedly

01:23:17 ♪ Happy birthday, your Royal Highness

01:27:03 ♪ Happy birthday to you