Rush used the music of “My City was Gone” - but never played even a second of Chrissy’s vocal. Shouldn’t the Pretenders (her band) be getting credit for the music played on Rush’s show?
I think it’s mostly about the song writer, which she was. She is playing the rhythm guitar on the track, also.
They’re all dead, but her. I suppose their estate’s should get a piece. As I understand it, there are different royalty amounts for the credited writers of the music and lyrics vs the people who played on the track. The latter get much less.
It depends some bands split the royalties others only have the songwrite get the whole pie. In a lot of cases whoever owns the publishing rights keeps all the royalties.