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What do Chick Corea, John Entwistle and Mark King have in common?

BassyBill

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A. They all have albums MISSING from Amazon's streaming service.

I subscribe to Amazon Music here in the UK and it's terrific. I can play pretty much any recorded music that I want, whenever I want. Most albums I ever think of, it's on there - except for a very small number, seemingly at random. £7.99/mo for instant access to a staggeringly huge library of music. Brilliant. Except…

For example, Hymn of the 7th Glalxy by Return To Forever ain't on Amazon Music. Neither is the RTF Anthology that includes it. It's not on Spotify either, although the anthology is. Most of RTF's catalogue seems to be available on both. But "Too Late The Hero" by John Entwistle is not available on either.

I'm talking way less than 1% of commercially available music, I'm sure. So far I've added hundreds of albums into my library and very few of the ones I have wanted have not been there, except for this tiny handful.But why? Any ideas?