Mark Lindsay Reveals His 2Cent Royalty Check on Facebook Before 84th Birthday Craig RosenMon, March 9, 2026 at 12:09 AM UTC 0 ((Photo by Daniel Knighton/Getty Images)) Sometimes, even legends can have a tough time making a decent paycheck in show business. Mark Lindsay, the singer of the legendary '60s band Paul Revere & the Raiders, took to Facebook just days before his 84th birthday on March 9 to share a recent royalty check.
Mark Lindsay Reveals His 2-Cent Royalty Check on Facebook Before 84th Birthday
Craig RosenMon, March 9, 2026 at 12:09 AM UTC
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Sometimes, even legends can have a tough time making a decent paycheck in show business.
Mark Lindsay, the singer of the legendary '60s band Paul Revere & the Raiders, took to Facebook just days before his 84th birthday on March 9 to share a recent royalty check.
"Here's MY two cents! Royalties just received today via SAG/AFTRA for a TV show," Lindsay posted on March 6 along with a photo of a check dated 11/26/2025 from NBC Universal for two cents.
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Lindsay accompanied the post with a song clip—a live cover of "Money (That's What I Want)" by Paul Revere & the Raiders. The song written by Motown founder Berry Gordy and Janie Brown, was first recorded by singer Barrett Strong and was later famously covered by several other acts from the Beatles to the Flying Lizards.
While we're not sure what Lindsay earned his two cents for, Paul Revere & the Raiders' music continues to be featured in TV shows and films. The band scored four top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 in the 1960s and topped the chart in 1971 with their version of "Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian)."
Over the last decade, songs by Paul Revere & the Raiders have been heard in a pair of acclaimed films. Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza featured "Indian Reservation" in 2021 and Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time …in Hollywood included "Good Thing," "Hungry," "Mr. Sun, Mr. Moon" and "It's Happening."
Lindsay also has an eerie connection to the story Tarantino fictionalized in the film. He and his record producer pal Terry Melcher lived in the Los Angeles home at the top of Benedict Canyon before it was rented to director Roman Polanski and his wife, Sharon Tate. It was in that home that Tate was murdered by followers of Charles Manson, in a scene that was loosely recreated by Tarantino in the film.
At a 2019 event at the Grammy Museum, Tarantino shared the stage with Lindsay to discuss the film, Lindsay's music and the connection to Manson.
"Paul Revere & the Raiders was exactly the kind of band that would have rocked my little socks off," Tarantino said, per the Los Angeles Times, of Lindsay's band, which was initially known for their matching revolutionary war costumes, as well as Lindsay's smooth vocals. "And the reason Manson knew of Terry Melcher was because of Paul Revere & the Raiders."
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Published: March 9, 2026 at 08:09AM on Source: RED MAG
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