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Post by Girl on Apr 27, 2005 19:42:45 GMT -5
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Post by xpt626 on Apr 27, 2005 20:38:07 GMT -5
I remember that uproar  |
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Post by -Wings- on Apr 30, 2005 22:01:39 GMT -5
Yeah, I felt that was rather unfair to George, but then I'm a bit biased in favor of any of the Beatles. Really, that was a rather mild form of "plagarism." For a more severe and blatant one, look at Queen and David Bowie's "Under Pressure" and then see what Vanilla Ice did with "Ice Ice Baby."
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Post by revolver on Apr 30, 2005 22:32:20 GMT -5
I think Lennon also "borrowed" a bit of Brian Wilson's Don't Worry Baby in (Just Like) Starting Over. He suggested the Stones borrowed parts of his Bless You in Miss You. But he wasn't saying that there was anything wrong with that. The more songs that are composed, the harder it gets to write a completely original one. |
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Post by linus on Aug 5, 2012 22:00:39 GMT -5
1968 The Sunshine Company - "Look, Here Comes the Sun"
1968 James Taylor - "Something In the Way She Moves"
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Post by iameye on Aug 6, 2012 6:40:51 GMT -5
They want to see your sunshine
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Post by linus on Oct 9, 2012 15:42:05 GMT -5
continuing from my last post: The “Taxman” exclamation near the end of Taxman is inspired by the theme song to the then new Batman tv series. The melody to The Inner Light is directly borrowed from the Broadway song September Song. suite101.com/article/songs-the-beatles-ripped-off-the-inner-light-a111279www.donaldsauter.com/beatle-inspiration.htm#p5I Want To Tell You is strikingly similar in theme to the song I Can’t Begin To Tell You, made famous by Perry Como www.youtube.com/watch?v=_STn9tZn0iELong Long Long not only uses the same chord progression as Bob Dylan’s Sad-Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands, but it also borrows from the song It’s Been A Long, Long Time which contains the line, “It’s been a long, long, long time.” made famous by Perry Como www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4mI_-8d4tcI, Me, Mine begins with the line, "All through the day" like the song All Through The Day, made famous by Perry Como, (written by Kern & Hammerstein). www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F-q3ulj-aEThe melody also shares similarities with Domino, made popular by Tony Martin in 1951 www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4SIywWRj-YIt’s All Too Much contains the line “With your long blonde hair and your eyes of blue.” Which is from the song Sorrow by the Merseys, which was on the British charts shortly before the writing of It’s All Too Much. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCMJPG_svTcNot only was the melody from Cole Porter’s True Love used as the melody for Good Night, but the flute intro to this version sounds a bit like the guitar intro to Here Comes The Sun www.donaldsauter.com/beatle-inspiration.htm#p3And I read a couple months ago that the intro to Something is from a popular song from the ‘50s also, I’ll have to try to find that again. |
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Post by iwilliam on Oct 12, 2012 2:47:45 GMT -5
... is pretty damn close to...
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Post by eddy on Oct 19, 2012 20:43:21 GMT -5
Poor George? How about poor Billy Preston? He's the one who got thrown under the bus in court, and he wasn't even the defendant. I think George's defence was something like- "Billy came up with the riff" "In the course of its opinion, the court seems to imply that the infringement was really Billy Preston's fault." "3. The reader will note that Harrison "gave" this extremely successful song to Preston, which might tell us that Harrison didn't recognize it as a hit single. If that's true, that would have been the second time he tossed a monster hit to a lesser artist. In his book I, Me, Mine, Harrison revealed that he "gave" the song "Something" to Joe Cocker before it was recorded for Abbey Road. It is also possible that Harrison, while taking sole credit for the song, recognized Preston's contributions by letting Preston record it first. The Court noted as much: "I treat Harrison as the composer, although it appears that Billy Preston may have been the composer as to part". |
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