Musical plagiarism(?)

[Moomin]

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Still don't know how Page/Plant got off with that one, roydo. A bit like the Eagles 'Hotel California' and the earlier Jethro Tull song 'We used to know', although on that one it was only the complete verse chord progression.

Was ‘dazed and confused’ not a rip off from someone as well? Never liked Led Zeppelin.

 

[roydo]

Whole lotta love was ripped from a Muddy Waters song.

They put a whole verse of 'The Hunter' (recorded by Albert King) that was written by Booker-T and the MGs, and claimed the complete song it was in as their own. They nicked whole lot of other songs as well. There are Youtube vids itemising them all - bloody hilarious!

Pretty much everything goes back to the early blues though!

And in Page's defence, I doubt he gets royalties from songs such as Joe Cocker "I get by with the help of my friends", nor Shirley Bassey with "Goldfinger".

 

[roydo]

Was ‘dazed and confused’ not a rip off from someone as well? Never liked Led Zeppelin.

Deffo. If I could find the book, I could name the Merican who wrote/performed it. Page developed it, violin bow and all, but Page saw it performed, maybe a backing act, dunno, and went to work on it.

 

[ClausThomsen]

These plagiarism cases are popping up more often now. Vultures buying up rights or shares of rights and then throwing out opportunistic legal cases hoping for out of court settlements. Not a fan of Sheeran but credit to him and his team for not taking the cheaper quiet option. Not the first time he's had to do it.

Would be quite something if someone dug around a bit, found an obscure song predating Marvin Gaye's release, bought the rights and then went after them.

 

[verreauxi]

HAHAHA...I remember seeing this and being like WTF, he can't be serious..."breaking it down" like "ding ding ding ding-ga ding dink"

 

[verreauxi]

Was ‘dazed and confused’ not a rip off from someone as well? Never liked Led Zeppelin.

Back when I was on Twitter, I made this guide to Led Zeppelin solely to stir the poop-pot and see the angry responses ("...but Whole Lotta Love is awesome"... "...how dare you!...", etc. etc.), but then that attention-seeking ass-clown bought twitter and I left before I could post it. So here it is:

 

[Moomin]

HAHAHA...I remember seeing this and being like WTF, he can't be serious..."breaking it down" like "ding ding ding ding-ga ding dink"

It is superb.

 

[ricardobee]

You can't copyright chord progressions.

Otherwise the writer of the 12 bar blues would probably own most of the planet.

I love Marvin and not a fan of Sheeran, but get in the bin Gaye Estate.

Speaking as a musician

 

[verreauxi]

It is superb.

That was like 12 adorable years prior to trashing an MTV studio and swinging a baseball bat, if I recall.

 

[coollino]

If they rinse him for $100 million then he is going to have extra motivation to make more music, here's hoping it fails miserably.

Marvin Gaye is dead mate

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

What's going on?

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

 

[coollino]

It's as if the guitar is a fairly limited instrument, who would have thought

 

[Moomin]

Ed Sheeran needs to be put on trial at the Hague for Galway Girl.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

I lasted 5 seconds of the She-Ra 'song'. Proper locked in a bedroom virgin stuff that

Overated muppet faced git.


Big fan.