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Thanks to Ryan for suggesting
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Rubinoos songwriters Tommy Dunbar and James Gangwer are taking Lavigne to court over the gob-smacking similarities between their songs.
Dunbar:
"We are not so naive as to chalk it up to some sort of cosmic
coincidence. The lyric, the metre, the rhythm - they're identical."
Lavigne:
"I had never heard this song in my life and their claim is based on 5 words! All songs share similar lyrics and emotions. As humans we speak one language."
There is some interesting further reading here.
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The "excellent guitar
riff" from Eddie Money's Two Tickets to Paradise sounds a lot like the chorus from The Angels' first single. I cannot work out which one
of these songs was released first. |
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The Planets
A One Minute Silence
(Batt, Cage)
Classical Graffiti - 2002 |
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Ciccone Youth
(silence)
The Whitey Album - 1988 |
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John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Two Minutes Silence
Life with the Lions - Unfinished Music Part 2 - 1969 |
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John Cage
4'33"
1952 |
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Erwin Schulhoff
In Futurum
1919 |
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Alphonse Allais
A Funeral March for an Illustrious Deaf Man
1884 |
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In 1952 avant-garde John Cage released his experimental work 4'33" featuring
4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence. In 2002, with Cage long dead, the
publishing company that owns the rights to his work charged Mike Batt
with plagiarism after his album with The Planets included a track that
consisted of one minute of silence.
Amazingly, Batt was eventually forced to settle with the publishing company
for a six figure sum.
Batt defending his piece:
"I certainly wasn't quoting his silence. I claim my silence is original
silence... Our's is better silence - it's digital."
"I have been able to say in one minute what Cage could only say in
four minutes and 33 seconds."
For a thorough account of the case and the history of silent composition
phenomenon I recommend this article: A
Better Silence - John Cage and copyright.
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Thanks to Keir for suggesting two more additions to this series. |
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The piano line that appears in both songs may be a simple song taught to children learning the piano - does anyone know it? |
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The royalties from Flight
Test will be shared with Cat Stevens after a legal settlement over similarities
between these songs.
Read more about it here.
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Australian readers should
be familiar with Custard and their ferociously energetic pop gem. |
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Ray Parker Jr came up with this famous lifted tribute only 6 months after Huey Lewis's hit was released. This Wikipedia article has more:
The producers of Ghostbusters had approached Lewis to use his song in the film, but their request was turned down, which led them to ask Parker to write a song similar to "I Want A New Drug" as the theme. This ended with Lewis suing Parker, and the pair settled out of court in 1995.
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From this Wikipedia article:
In an interview given to French magazine "Hard Rock Magazine",
(Killing Joke frontman) Jaz Coleman stated he did not file a lawsuit
in great deal because the members of Nirvana openly confessed to him
that they indeed took the riff, which he said was all he wanted to hear.
Thanks to Kris Sellgren for suggesting this one |
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When it comes to musical tributes and "creative borrowing" Oasis is my bread and butter. |
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You Am I front
man Tim Rogers cheekily (and skilfully) crafts his song around the bridge
of XTC's biggest selling single.
If you have never heard it - Hourly, Daily is possibly the best
Australian album of all time. |
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George Harrison entered
into a long and expensive legal battle over the rights and royalties for
My Sweet Lord after subconsciously lifting the melody of sixties
girl group hit He's So Fine.
Read all about it here: http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/mysweet.htm |
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Thanks to Jamie for
suggesting the Blur connection. If you would like to suggest your own
lifted tribute then click on the envelope at the top of the screen. |
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Turns out these Carey
brothers aren't brothers at all, but some guy whose last name is Brothers.
And yes - Doobie is his father. |
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