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marcovandereijk
One can go on for ever of course with examples like these. Just from top of my head:
Ben E King (Stand by me) vs Police (Every breath you take)
Stones (Miss you) vs Rod Stewart (Da ya think I'm sexy)
Gloria Gaynor (I will survive) vs Robbie Williams (Love supreme)
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CousinC
Btw It's ridicilous to compare the Verve song to The Last Time original!
It was taken from the A. Oldham version.
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CousinC
Btw It's ridicilous to compare the Verve song to The Last Time original!
It was taken from the A. Oldham version.
I agree but still a nice little earner for Mick & Keith.
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ROLLINGSTONE
Whether or not KD would have kicked up a fuss is anyone's guess.
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ROLLINGSTONE
Only a "nice little earner" if they were given writing credit or won
a lawsuit. But..i agree...not that similar.
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sweet neo con
marco...funny you mention miss you/do ya think i'm sexy.......the rod stewart
song came on the car radio recently and the similarity struck me immediately.
one of the MOST blatant rip-offs (practically the entire song) is
an early Janet Jackson song....stolen from the band AMERICA.
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sweet neo con
marco...funny you mention miss you/do ya think i'm sexy.......the rod stewart
song came on the car radio recently and the similarity struck me immediately.
one of the MOST blatant rip-offs (practically the entire song) is
an early Janet Jackson song....stolen from the band AMERICA.
Do You Think I'm Sexy was ripped off from Bobby Womack's If You Don't Want My Love. Just listen to the string section on the latter and you'll hear it. Stewart told his guitarist at the time to come up with "a Miss You" for him after The Stones had a huge hit with it. So he ripped off Bobby Womack. Ironically.