Everybody needs a good campaign song — something to pump up the crowd. In 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt opted for “Happy Days Are Here Again” for his White House bid. As far as we know, no one objected.

Cut to 1984. Ronald Reagan asks Bruce Springsteen if he can use his “Born in the USA” anthem for his campaign. And Springsteen says no. Springsteen goes on to say no in 1996 to Bob Dole and again in 2000 to Pat Buchanan. Clearly, The Boss wasn’t into Republicans.

Interestingly, the biggest impact of all that might not have been on Republicans, but on Springsteen, as it turned him into the working-class advocate he has been ever since. So, he can thank Ronald Reagan for putting him on the political map.

Lefty rockers and conservative politicians have battled over music ever since, from 1988 when Bobby McFerrin objected to George H.W. Bush using his song “Don’t Worry Be Happy,” to 2008 when John McCain riled Jackson Browne by using “Running on Empty.”

Browne won an undisclosed cash settlement and a public apology from McCain, according to Rolling Stone. And The New York Times called the suit a “turning point” in the history of politicians using pop tunes without artists’ permission. The controversy also cemented McCain’s status as the politician who garnered the most artist objections to song use in campaigns.

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McCain said in 2008 that, although he was a big ABBA fan, he wasn’t going to push for using one of their tunes. “It’s more difficult to play ‘Take a Chance on Me’ than I thought,” McCain said at the time, according to Reuters. “It gets expensive in a big hurry and if you’re not careful you can alienate some Swedes.”

Individuals in the entertainment industry are, for the most part, Democrats. Liberal Hollywood, we know. It’s no different this 2016 election cycle, in which 73 percent of total individual donations from that industry, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, have gone to Democrats.

Which brings us to now — and the latest feud. Last week, the Rolling Stones asked presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to stop playing their songs at his events. Trump had been using “Start Me Up” to start things up.

Adele and Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler have also asked Trump to stop using their songs. And Neil Young also objected when the then-long-shot candidate and real estate mogul used “Rockin’ in the Free World” during his campaign kickoff announcement last year.

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In those cases, the Trump campaign stopped using the songs.

Interestingly, political campaigns don’t need artists’ permission to play their songs at rallies — as long as the political organization or the venue has gotten what’s known as a blanket license from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers and Broadcast Music Inc. for all the music in the licensing group’s repertoire, The Associated Press reported.

But that doesn’t mean artists don’t have any recourse. BMI has a provision in its license agreement that allows songwriters or publishers to object to the use of their songs, and they have the ability to exclude those songs from the blanket license, says AP.

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“Donald Trump was not authorized to use ‘Rockin’ in the Free World’ in his presidential candidacy announcement,” said Young, a Canadian citizen and Bernie Sanders supporter, at the time. But Trump’s campaign manager insisted that Trump had “paid for and obtained legal right to use” the song. Then-manager Corey Lewandowski told Fox411, “Nevertheless, there are plenty of other songs to choose from. Despite Neil’s differing political views, Mr. Trump likes him very much.”

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton came under fire recently for her campaign song, but it wasn’t the artist who complained. She used the Prince tune  “Let’s Go Crazy” at a rally in Pennsylvania. Some saw it as shamelessly disrespecting the legacy of the great musical artist, who recently died.

Clinton told Philadelphia radio station WDAS-FM she was “so, so sad” about Prince’s death. But if Clinton and her campaign were true fans of Prince, they would know he would never have approved of her playing his song at any campaign rally, The Observer noted. Political reasons aside, he was firmly against the commercialization of music.