A record contract is basically two or three sheets of A4 paper that a musician signs his name on. We could stop right there, but we haven’t looked at paragraph B on page 2 appertaining to clause 3 on page 1 that has a definite effect on the fourth paragraph in clause 7 at the bottom of page 2. In simple terms, the easiest way to read a record contract is to start like this: “Once upon a time, in a land far, far away…”