Tommy James: They say crime doesn’t pay and it’s true – the criminals who ran Roulette never paid me!

An amazing and hilarious article in the Guardian about Tommy James, the American pop-singer who in 1966, as a 19-year old small-town boy, signed a deal with Roulette Records, only to find out it is being run by a mobster Morris Levy. James scored 23 US chart singles, plus nine gold or platinum albums – selling 100m records, but he never got any royalties until 1986 when Levy sold Roulette to EMI. James believes Levy owed him up to $40 million when the mobster died in 1990. James however got poetic justice with his bestselling autobiography 'Me, the Mob and the Music' which is being adapted to a movie by Barbara De Fina, the film producer behind Martin Scorsese’s 'Goodfellas' and many other movies. James continues to play across the US...