Stan Polley was a very rare breed of c*nt. He actually got his secretary to ring up Pete Ham's wife a couple of months after his death to ask her to write a note exonerating Polley of any wrongdoing. I mean even among high profile con men, that's a new level of scummery right there. But at long last there is good news: with Polley now dead and the legal issues with Apple, Warner Bros. and goodness knows who else having finally been resolved a couple of years ago, the Pete Ham estate now receives full songwriting royalties due to them, with the particularly lucrative 'Without You' bringing in up to $200,000 a year on the back of the highly popular Nilsson and Carey covers. So at least now, it wasn't all for nothing.