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Re: New One On Me... « Reply #2 on Apr 30, 2005, 10:01pm »
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."
The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright-- And this was odd, because it was The middle of the night.
The moon was shining sulkily, Because she thought the sun Had got no business to be there After the day was done-- "It's very rude of him," she said, "To come and spoil the fun!"
Usually, when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh ~
Sherlock Holmes to Watson: "Never theorize before you have data. Invariably, you end up twisting facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."
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Re: New One On Me... « Reply #5 on Aug 6, 2012, 6:40am »
Long 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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4mI_-8d4tc
It’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. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCMJPG_svTc
Not 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 http://www.donaldsauter.com/beatle-inspiration.htm#p3
And 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.
Usually, when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh ~
Sherlock Holmes to Watson: "Never theorize before you have data. Invariably, you end up twisting facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."
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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