Robbie Williams has been sued by the co-writer of his smash hit Angels who claims to have earned just £7,500 from the song.
Ray Heffernan will fight the British singer, 51, for a third of the future royalties associated with the single, which had sold an estimated 1.8 million copies, when combining physical and digital sales, in the UK as of 2021.
The Irish singer-songwriter, who penned the hit aged 22, is aiming to use the new 'bestseller clause' - recently passed EU copyright law accommodating retrospective compensation for writers - in his upcoming legal battle.
The 1997 record spent 12 weeks in the top 10 on the charts and has since gained a renewed popularity among the newer generation, bagging more than 670 million streams on Spotify.
It was voted the best British song of the past 25 years by voters at the 2005 Brit Awards and in the same year was chosen as the single most Britons would play at their funeral.
