History Main / ContractualObligationProject

* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' parody of ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', the OpeningCrawl veers off into a rant about how they're tired of parodying ''Franchise/StarWars'', says that Creator/{{Fox}} made them produce it, [[ParodiedTrope lapses into a non sequitur about raccoons, and finally asks the audience to lower their expectations for the episode.]] And no, that rant wasn't a joke on their part, they really meant it.

* Legendary JazzFusion band Music/WeatherReport's final album, ''This Is This!'', was only made because the band had one more album left in their contract. Shorter was mostly not involved in it, preferring to focus on his solo project, and the album suffered for it.

* Lampshaded in a ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'' with Jimmy Thudpucker. When told he needs a "dues" song on his new album (as in "I've paid my dues") Jimmy replies that he paid no dues. He was an overnight success. His agent counters that his contract requires one "dues" song per album.

Lampshaded in a ''ComicStrip/{{Doonsbury}}'' with Jimmy Thudpucker. When told he needs a "dues" song on his new album (as in "I've paid my dues") Jimmy replies that he paid no dues. He was an overnight success. His agent counters that his contract requires one "dues" song per album.

* In 1970, Music/TheRollingStones wanted to leave their then-current record company Decca to form their own label but was told they were still under contract to produce at least one more single for the company. To complete the contract but also stick it to Decca management whom they had grown to really detest by this time, they submitted the extremely profane song, Cocksucker Blues (aka Schoolboy Blues), a song that tells the tale of a young man going to London looking for gay sex in explicit detail. Naturally, Decca refused to release it, just as the band had expected. It would have remained buried and unheard by anyone outside the band and record label if not for a German record label accidentally including it on a Rolling Stones box set "The Rest of the Best" they released in 1983. Once this oversight was discovered, the box set was recalled and later reissued without Schoolboy Blues on it, but not before copies of the original version of the box set were sold and as a result, the song was later able to be uploaded to the internet, where it has since developed a cult following.

* During the 2010s, Creator/{{Sega}} signed a deal with Creator/{{Nintendo}} to make three ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' games for them: Of which came ''VideoGame/SonicLostWorld'', ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndSonicAtTheOlympicGames Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Winter Games]]''... and ''VideoGame/SonicBoom''. While the former two had smooth enough developments, the third was outsourced to another company called Big Red Button whose engine wasn't compatible with the UsefulNotes/WiiU system. Rather than scrap the project and do something else, Sega pretty much forced the company into completing the game to fulfill its obligation to Nintendo. The fact that the game was Big Red Button's first (and at the current, only) game which critics and gamers would savage didn't help matters.

* The infamous UsefulNotes/ZXSpectrum game ''VideoGame/{{SQIJ}}'' was the result of a contract between its creator Jason Creighton (then 15 years old) and publisher The Power House. After a falling-out, he tried to get out of the contract by [[AshcanCopy hastily slapping together some code that just barely qualified as a game]], figuring the result would be so obviously unpublishable that they'd just throw it out. [[SpringtimeForHitler Then they went and published it anyway.]]

* ''VideoGame/HotelMario'' and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDIGames'' exist as part of a contract Creator/{{Nintendo}} and Philips made after the cancellation of the UsefulNotes/{{SNESCDRom}}. Consequently, Nintendo had little interest or oversight other than ensuring that the characters were on model in the packaging and manual artwork.

* The only reason Creator/{{Freeform}} still airs the fundamentalist Christian show ''The 700 Club'' is because it is under contract with televangelist Pat Robertson to do so, back when it was owned by his Christian Broadcasting Network, under the name CBN Satellite Service. Robertson has allegedly refused Disney's monetary offers to take his business elsewhere; it's likely that he's doing it out of spite in response to the network's "satanic" direction since the TurnOfTheMillennium. The network gets around the issue by scheduling it in undesirable slots and airing ContentWarnings which generally [[TakeThat mock the show]].

For a creator involved in a contractual obligation project, the ''obligation'' aspect looms over everything. A typical example is when there's a final project left in a long-term agreement between parties whose relationship has soured. [[CreatorsApathy The enthusiasm for this last project may be low]] since at least one party just wants to get it over with and end the deal. Other times, the Contractual Obligation Project may be one a creator will do [[OneForTheMoneyOneForTheArt just so they can get to do another more enticing project that's also part of the deal.]] This does not mean a Contractual Obligation Project is all but guaranteed of being a dud. There are times when, in spite of everything, the final product will end up being [[SleeperHit financially successful, award-winning,]] and [[MagnumOpusDissonance highly-regarded]].

* The reason Music/MichaelJackson did Pepsi commercials in TheEighties despite not drinking the stuff was part of the deal for them sponsoring Music/TheJacksons' ''Victory'' tour in 1984. This led to a serious accident where, while filming one of the commercials, Jackson was accidentally set on fire by pyrotechnics; he negotiated a massive settlement with Pepsi afterwards, but the injuries to his scalp forced him to wear wigs for the rest of his life, and many pointed to the accident as the catalyst for the painkiller addiction that would eventually kill him.

* Basically how the ''[[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Glitter Force]]'' dub came to be. Despite Crunchyroll trying to get the streaming rights to the rest of the ''Pretty Cure'' series [[note]] and eventually succeeding in doing so after ''Glitter Force'' flopped [[/note]], Toei decided to include ''Pretty Cure'' in the same licensing deal that also gave Saban Brands the rights to ''Digimon''. However, it should be noted that Saban wanted nothing to do with the ''Pretty Cure'' series to begin with. This resulted in ''Smile'' (and eventually ''Anime/DokiDokiPrettyCure'') getting an AshcanCopy dub work from upper management.

* For nearly 20 years, Creator/WaltDisney had a distribution deal with Creator/{{RKO}}. By the early 1950s, RKO was crumbling under the erratic leadership of Creator/HowardHughes. In 1953, Disney had formed his own distribution company, Buena Vista, but was still obligated to deliver one more film to Hughes. As a result, Disney compiled segments from his earlier animated anthologies ''WesternAnimation/MakeMineMusic'' and ''WesternAnimation/MelodyTime'', to create ''Music Land'' (1955). This constituted a new film in RKO's eyes, and the deal ended with ''Music Land''. Unsurprisingly, the film is an even bigger OldShame for Disney than its other package movies; it never saw any theatrical reissues nor any home video releases and is not counted as part of the [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon canon]].

* While Creator/DavidArquette doing ''Film/ReadyToRumble'' isn't itself an example (he actually enjoyed doing the film... solely because it let him hang out with professional wrestlers; he thought the script was garbage), him holding the WCW World Heavyweight Championship ''is''. Arquette, a lifelong wrestling fan, was horrified at the idea of a non-wrestler like him being handed the title, but was forced into the gimmick by his contract. In response, he donated his earnings to the families of deceased wrestlers Wrestling/OwenHart and Wrestling/BrianPillman, as well as to Darren Drozdov (rendered permanently paralyzed after an in-ring accident).

* Even though the film ended up winning her an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward (albeit due to a sympathy vote because she had nearly died of pneumonia[[note]]Creator/ShirleyMacLaine, up until then the presumptive favorite for ''Film/TheApartment'', which otherwise swept the awards that night, famously said "when Liz Taylor got a hole in her throat, I cancelled my plane".[[/note]]), Creator/ElizabethTaylor never liked ''[=Butterfield=] 8'' and only did the movie because it was required under her contract.
* ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'' is an example due to Creator/MikeMyers and Bo Welch being forced under threat of a lawsuit[[note]] Myers was supposed to do a movie based off the ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch ''Sprockets'' for Universal, but he was unsatisfied with all of the proposed scripts and refused.[[/note]] to work on the movie.

* Creator/JamieLeeCurtis was forced to star in ''Film/HalloweenResurrection'' - a critically savaged sequel to ''Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater''. The promotional team also circulated a lie that Jamie was only meant to have a 30-second cameo but "liked the script so much" she had her role expanded.

* Creator/RoyScheider did not originally want to appear in ''Film/Jaws2'', but had recently left the production of ''Film/TheDeerHunter'', which led to conflicts with Creator/UniversalPictures to whom he was locked into a multi-film contract. The studio agreed to forgive his leaving ''The Deer Hunter'' if he did ''Jaws 2'', which they would count as the two remaining films of his contract with them. Scheider agreed to the terms, but was resentful of his involvement from the onset and clashed frequently with director Jeannot Szwarc.

* Creator/{{Disney}} inherited a bunch of movies from [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios Twentieth Century Fox]] following the former's expensive acquisition of the latter. Despite some speculation that some completed films might be canceled, Disney took an effort to honor the existing contracts by giving full theatrical releases to all inherited films, even if some movies had InvisibleAdvertising as a result.

* The series ''Series/{{Helstrom}}'' was commissioned by ''Marvel Television'' for Creator/{{Hulu}} as part of the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' (MCU) in a supernatural horror subfranchise titled ''Adventure Into Fear'' with a standalone ''Ghost Rider'' series (with Gabriel Luna reprising his role) also being developed with many other horror characters also having planned adaptations. However, following a corporate restructuring that had MCU Producer Kevin Feige gaining complete oversight over the Television side of the MCU, the subfranchise was aborted with all the shows cancelled except ''Helstrom'' due to being too far in development, and was allowed to finish production but also declared non-canonical to the MCU in order to fulfill their contractual obligations to the parties involved.
* The NCAA used to control all television rights for UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball. Starting in 1977, when they reached a 4-year deal with Creator/{{ABC}} that significantly expanded the number of games shown, the NCAA required that the network show a small number of games involving colleges from the lower-profile Division II and Division III (and, when it began in 1978, Division I-AA). ABC had no intention of taking any prime exposure away from Division I teams for these games, so they [[LoopholeAbuse scheduled them in the less-desirable early afternoon timeslots with very small regional footprints]] (often just 1 or 2 affiliates). In 1982, Creator/{{CBS}} was also granted rights to live games, but the NCAA subjected them to the same requirements, which they handled in much the same way. Most memorably, during the UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague players' strike that year, CBS burned off their Division III requirement over a single weekend by moving four games[[note]]Baldwin-Wallace at Wittenberg, West Georgia at Millsaps, Wisconsin-Oshkosh at Wisconsin-Stout, University of San Diego at Occidental[[/note]] to Sunday and putting them in the regular NFL timeslot to be aired on a regional basis. However, the NCAA's heavy-handed rules had frustrated many of the bigger schools, who banded together to form the College Football Association, which attempted to cut its own TV deal. This led to suits and countersuits between the NCAA and the CFA, until the US Supreme Court ruled against the NCAA in 1984, saying that their TV contracts violated the Sherman Antitrust Act, opening the way for schools and conferences to make TV deals and pushing the smaller schools out of the TV picture entirely.
* ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'' exists because of contractual obligations between Disney, Bandai, and Jetix Europe. By that point in time, Disney had long contemplated cancelling ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' (especially when Bruce Kalish, lead producer of previous Disney seasons, parted ways following ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury''), but they were on the hook for one last season, so ''RPM'' was produced with fresh new production. The preconception that ''RPM'' was going to be [[GrandFinale the final season of the franchise]] is what enabled the new team more creative freedom to explore [[DarkerAndEdgier an uncharacteristically darker and more self-aware direction appealing to older audiences]], but [[ScrewedByTheNetwork it also led to Disney's complete indifference to the show when it was ready, giving it little advertising and subjecting it highly inconsistent broadcasting and timeslots, including at 5 AM]].
* Short-lived reality/competition show ''Unchained Reaction'' -- hosted by Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman of ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' fame -- was the result of the two being approached by {{Creator/Discovery|Channel}} to create a show based on making [[RubeGoldbergDevice chain reaction machines]]. Neither Savage nor Hyneman were fans of Rube Goldberg machines just for the sake of it, as well as competition shows, but they ended up doing a short 6-episode season to test the waters [[ShortRunners before it was dropped shortly afterwards]].

* When Music/MarvinGaye got divorced in 1977, he agreed to give his ex-wife half the proceeds from his next album. The result was ''Here, My Dear'', which was panned by critics and fans alike (although it's been VindicatedByHistory, making ''Magazine/RollingStone''[='=]s list of 500 Greatest Albums of All Time at #456). Rumors that he intentionally made a bad album that wouldn't sell soon arose; other accounts suggest that she was going to get the money regardless, possibly making this an aversion.

* Lord Melody (a calypso singer) released two in 1962/1963 to get out of his contract with Cook Records (which was about to fold). These were ''Lord Melody 1962'' (US) / ''More Calypsoes By Lord Melody'' (Trinidad) (largely rerecorded early 50s material and singles aimed at tourists) and ''Caribbean Limbo Music'' (an album of Melody and a man named Sam discussing limbo moves over jazz instrumentals from Cook's back catalog). In Trinidad, ''1962'' was Melody's poorest selling release, though it was fairly successful in the US due to his cover of "Shame And Scandal" (Wau Wau).

** As ''Music/{{Alapalooza}}'' neared completion, Scotti Bros. attempted to release a compilation album called ''Al Unplugged''. When Al heard that this meant swapping out the electric instruments in the songs in favor of synthesized acoustic-sounding parts, he put an end to it. The label then pitched ''The Food Album'' which Al accepted because he "hated it slightly less." Al commissioned Creator/MrLawrence to design the album cover (a monster getting his last licks at the remains of Al's skeleton with an apple in its jaws) to illustrate how the label had "[bled] his catalogue dry".
** While ''Music/BadHairDay'' was in production, Al was similarly approached for ''The TV Album'' to complete the compilation album clause on his contract. Al was more open to it, reporting that the record company was more civil than they had been in other cases. Its cover depicts Al giving a SlasherSmile while blowing up a TV set with dynamite. Al explained that the artwork for ''TV'' and ''Food'' was so that he'll at least have a good laugh at the album covers despite hating the albums themselves.

* Music/{{Logic}} had announced his retirement from rap before realising that his contract with Def Jam still required him to put out an album and mixtape; he put together his last album under Def Jam, ''Vinyl Days'', in 12 days in order to fulfil his obligations and get independent as fast as possible. The album recieved broadly positive reviews, features an impressive guest list, and is considered by his fans to be one of his best projects. Logic stated in an interview that he was proud that, even though he cranked it out quickly, ''Vinyl Days'' was "the dopest shit I could give them -- it's not like I just wiped my ass".
* In 1970, Music/TheRollingStones wanted to leave their then current record company Decca to form their own label but was told the were still under contract to product at least one more single for the company. To complete the contract but also stick it to Decca management whom they had grown to really detest by this time, the submitted the extremely profane song, Cocksucker Blues (aka Schoolboy Blues), a song that tells the tale of a young man going to London looking for gay sex in explicit detail. Naturally, Decca refused to release it, just as the the band had expected. It would have remained buried and unheard by anyone outside the band and record label if not for a German record label accidentally including it on a Rolling Stones box set "The Rest of the Best" in they released in 1983. Once this oversight was discovered, the box set was recalled and later reissued without Schoolboy Blues on it, but not before copies of the original version of the box set were sold and as a result the song was later able to be uploaded to the internet, where it has since develop a cult following.

* Music/MikeOldfield's ''Amarok'' and ''Heaven's Open'' were made primarily to fulfil the remainder of his contract with Creator/VirginRecords, as Oldfield's relationship with CEO Richard Branson had grown increasingly strained over the years. To ensure that he would have the last laugh, both albums were loaded with jabs at Branson and Virgin, with the former album being made as uncommercial as possible (following ''Earth Moving'', in which Oldfield adhered to Branson's demands to the letter by making a pop album with no instrumentals).
* Music/FrankOcean was signed on to Def Jam records after his mixtape ''Nostalgia, Ultra''. He released ''Channel Orange'', and then went quiet for several years, occasionally teasing an upcoming project. Finally in August of 2016, he released ''Endless'', a odd collection song fragments sprinkled into a long video of him building a staircase. His contractual obligation with Def Jam for two albums fulfilled and Frank having bought back all his masters going back to 2009, he then left Def Jam and independently released ''Blonde'' which went on to eclipse ''Endless'' entirely.

* Believe it or not, there was an entire car brand that owed its' existence to contractual reasons -- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_(automobile) Eagle]]. [[https://youtu.be/vv6XDyns7N8 Created by Chrysler in the late 80s]] after their buyout of the AMC assets (including Jeep) from Renault, the very existence of the brand was predicated on Renault forcing Chrysler to use a certain amount of Renault-sourced engines and parts in their intended new flagship sedan, the Renault Premier (as Renault had poured tons of money into creating it, including the construction of a brand-new assembly plant in Ontario) -- it would instead be sold as the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Premier Eagle Premier]]. The Eagle name was taken from the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC_Eagle AMC Eagle]] (the last non-Renault or Jeep model AMC was still selling at the time of the buyout); another factor that meant Eagle needed to be its' own brand was that state franchise laws prevented Chrysler from selling their existing product through the ex-AMC dealer network (and vice-versa, meaning Eagle would be sold alongside Jeeps exclusively; [[LoopholeAbuse this didn't prevent dealers from selling Jeep-Eagle product and separately selling products from the other Chrysler divisions]]). It only lasted for 10 years, their models never sold well, and outside the legal requirements mainly functioned as a clearinghouse for other Chrysler products (including [[PaletteSwap badge-engineered Mitsubishis]]); however, [[SmallRoleBigImpact the Eagle Premier platform (which was more advanced than anything else Chrysler had at the time) was used as the basis]] for the extremely-successful [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_LH_platform LH platform "cab forward" cars]] that brought Chrysler both sales and critical acclaim in the 1990s (and indeed, Eagle sold an LH variant as the Eagle Vision).

* During the 2010s, Creator/{{Sega}} signed a deal with Creator/{{Nintendo}} to make three ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' games for them: Of which came ''VideoGame/SonicLostWorld'', ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndSonicAtTheOlympicGames Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Winter Games]]''... and ''VideoGame/SonicBoom''. While the former two had smooth enough developments, the third was outsourced to another company called Big Red Button whose engine wasn't compatible with the UsefulNotes/WiiU system. Rather than scrap the project and do something else, Sega pretty much forced the company into completing the game to fulfill their obligation to Nintendo. The fact that the game was Big Red Button's first (and at the current, only) game which would be savaged by critics and gamers didn't help matters.
* ''VideoGame/AliensColonialMarines'' was a game that [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios 20th Century Fox]] and later Creator/{{Sega}} always wanted to do, an Action-Horror FirstPersonShooter set after the events of ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' and ''Film/Alien3''. However, they would be unable to do it due to bad luck and incompetence. Eventually, Sega would hire Creator/GearboxSoftware to make their own version, but suspicions of Gearbox taking money away to work on their own projects led to Sega canceling the game, only to give it back to Gearbox after the success of ''Videogame/Borderlands1'' with the caveat of a 2012 release. However, Gearbox was in the middle of developing ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' and finishing ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' when they accepted to develop ''Colonial Marines'', and feeling that ''Borderlands 2'' was a more important game (since it was their IP), decided to outsource the development of ''A:CM'' to [=TimeGate=] Studios, who were unable to make a passable build by the time ''[=BL2=]'' was released in 2012 due to ExecutiveMeddling from both Gearbox and Sega. Gearbox's leadership went into panic mode as Sega would sue them for failing to release the game on time as promised, and decided to rebuild the game almost from scratch to get the game into stores just before the end of Sega's fiscal year in March 2013. The game would be released to dismal reviews but passable sales and Sega would cut ties with Gearbox for all the TroubledProduction the game suffered through.

* ''VideoGame/HotelMario'' and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDIGames'' exist as part of a contract Creator/{{Nintendo}} and Philips made after the cancellation of the UsefulNotes/{{SNESCDRom}}. Consequently, Nintendo had little interest or oversight other than ensuring that the characters were on-model in the packaging and manual artwork.

* ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'': Invoked in a song that was so pointless, Larry's voice actor supposedly refused to finish it (though this was probably written-in meta-humor). "The Song Under the Credits" was its name, and in the middle of a chorus of "Hey hey ho-ho-ho-ho" the actor left, while the other actors chewed him out for leaving, telling him "We have contractual obligations to finish this song!"

* Short-lived reality/competition show ''Unchained Reaction'' -- hosted by Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman of ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' fame -- was the result of the two being approached by {{Creator/Discovery|Channel}} to creating a show for based on [[RubeGoldbergDevice chain reaction machines]]. Neither Savage nor Hyneman were fans of competition shows, but they ended up doing a short 6-episode season to test the waters [[ShortRunners before it was dropped afterwards]].

* Basically how the ''[[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Glitter Force]]'' dub came to be. Despite Crunchyroll trying to get the streaming rights to the rest of the ''Pretty Cure'' series [[note]] and eventually succeeding in doing so after ''Glitter Force'' flopped [[/note]], Toei decided to include Pretty Cure in the same licensing deal that also gave Saban Brands the rights to ''Digimon''. However, it should be noted that Saban wanted nothing to do with the Pretty Cure series to begin with. This resulted in ''Smile'' (and eventually ''Anime/DokiDokiPrettyCure'') getting an AshcanCopy dub work from upper management.

* Basically how the ''[[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Glitter Force]]'' dub came to be. Despite Crunchyroll trying to get the streaming rights to the rest of the Pretty Cure series, Toei decided to include Pretty Cure in the same licencing deal that also gave Saban Brands the rights to Digimon. However, it should be noted that Saban wanted nothing to do with the Pretty Cure series to begin with. This resulted in Smile (and eventually ''Anime/DokiDokiPrettyCure'') getting an AshcanCopy dub work from upper management.

* The reason Music/MichaelJackson did Pepsi commercials in TheEighties despite not drinking the stuff was part of the deal for them sponsoring Music/TheJacksons' ''Victory'' tour in 1984.

* Creator/BruceWillis starred in ''Film/Armageddon1998'', ''Film/TheSixthSense'' and ''Film/TheKid'' (the first two of which were monster hits) because of another film he'd been working on for Disney, ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_Brawler Broadway Brawler]]'', being scrapped early into principal photography for various reasons (mostly on Willis' end), with a three-picture deal between him and Disney ultimately brokered to prevent Disney from suing him; because of the fact that Disney had spent $20 million on an unfinished movie, Willis took a drastic cut in pay for ''Armageddon'' to help make up the difference.

* Music/FrankOcean was signed on to Def Jam records after his mixtape ''Nostalgia, Ultra''. He realeased Channel Orange, and then went quiet for several years, occasionally teasing an upcoming project. Finally in August of 2016, he released ''Endless'', a odd collection song fragments sprinkled into a long video of him building a staircase. His contractual obligation with Def Jam for two albums fullfilled and Frank having bought back all his masters going back to 2009, he then left Def Jam and independently released ''Blonde'' which went on to eclipse ''Endless'' entirely.

* Basically how the [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Glitter Force]] dub came to be. Despite Crunchyroll trying to get the streaming rights to the rest of the Pretty Cure series, Toei decided to include Pretty Cure in the same licencing deal that also gave Saban Brands the rights to Digimon. However, it should be noted that Saban wanted nothing to do with the Pretty Cure series to begin with. This resulted in Smile (and eventually Anime/DokiDokiPrettyCure) getting an Ashcan Copy dub work from upper management.

* Musicians frequently release {{Cover Album}}s, [[ChristmasSongs Christmas Albums]], {{Live Album}}s, {{Greatest Hits Album}}s, or {{Remix Album}}s as a quick, easy way to fulfill a contract.
* Part of the reason for ''Music/BandOfGypsys'' being produced was to settle a contract dispute with Ed Chalpin, who managed Hendrix when the guitarist was a member of R&B band Curtis Knight & The Squires and who had been reissuing Knight/Squires albums on Creator/CapitolRecords with misleading covers publicizing Jimi's involvement with them to compete with/capitalize on Hendrix' success years later.

* ''Music/AxisBoldAsLove'' by The Music/JimiHendrix Experience was a contractual obligation album because the Experience was required to release two albums in 1967. Despite this, it is regarded as a classic and was listed at #83 in ''Magazine/RollingStone''[='=]s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.