10 Beatles Hits That 'Rip Off' Other Songs 

From Pete Best?

If you’re going to steal, steal from the best. I stole that line, and I stole this line too, and I also stole this line

Funny

Aoooooo

Rob; you stole it from Igor Stravinsky who stole it from Abraham Linclon

Ice Ice Baby

omg im laughing so hard at this..... wasnt there like a HUGE COURT LAWSUIT OVER THE BASS RIFF RYTHEM... lol cause the riff was the same but off by like half a beat lol

Thank you. Saved me a comment! Lol

Hahah!!

Beatles songs had way more going on around the bass line so they could pull off using similar bass lines, all music is rehashed anyway - just try playing a 12 bar blues song in key of E and not sound exactly like Pride and Joy by SRV, who rhythmically sounds exactly like every other blues guitar players that ever came before him. Style and originality is only difference. Ice Ice Baby was 90% stolen bass line from Under Pressure (Bowie and Mercury) BUT It has hell of a lot of style and originality and in the end I think Vanella got totally screwed.

and after the B 52's Planet Claire, using a Peter Gunn Bass Riff was simply a public domain riff idea

Take a sad song and make it better

The Under Pressure riff was sampled for Ice Ice Baby. Sampling didn’t exist in the Beatles era.

@@colinbaker3916 How did sampling not exist? It’s literally just playing someone else’s music.

@@jonde4445 It’s using the actual recording of someone else’s playing. While you can say George Harrison stole the riff from Watch Your Step, he still had to learn to play it himself, rather than press record and playback.

@@colinbaker3916 that's direct sampling. You can sample without using the original recording

@@applehack97 Were you around in the sixties? The term - however you want to use it - didn’t exist. The likes of Paul McCartney and Keith Richards spoke of stealing riffs from, say, Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry. They never even called it sampling when they stuck existing radio recordings on to I Am The Walrus or Revolution 9.

That's how far ahead of their time The Beatles were.

Yawn

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@@hansvandermeulen5515 😸😸😸

And The Ruttles

Check out Fleetwood Mac’s albatross and sun king from abbey road

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Perhaps “abstruse” or “enigmatic” would better fit your intent here.

its 1st 3rd 5th and back.. you can hardly go wrong, and you can hardly avoid it.

Just a side note. The Beatles song and Chuck Berry song were 16 bars rather than 12, which is even illustrated at 2:21. Still a fair point.

Exactly

@DOGS LOL blues borrows from folk.. and it stops there cause its the backbone of all music. 1, 4, 5.

You can't copyright the fundamentals of music, which makes bass riffs difficult to sue over since they tend to anchor the chords on the tonic and dominant, or they have an arpeggiated walking bassline. In this case, they do appear to be an actual singular riff that could be copyrightable, but everyone uses them so.... But Paul's right, people don't really sue over basslines, so "they don't have to be original". That said, he still managed to create quite of few original basslines.

He IS because a nobody says he is ? and LITERALLY no less. ! BTW you are plagiarizing Paul McCartney who has given that credit to Chuck Berry a zillion times. While at ALL level the GOD of rock music is a white boy named Elvis Presley.

Berry never gave credit to his pianist who wrote most of the music to his songs. He also was very much a one trick pony and did influence great songwriters such as Lennon, McCartney, Jagger, Richards - all of whom were and are superior composers to him by a long, long way.

@@voodooinblue3450 With all due respect all these "great" rock acts dipped into Chuck Berry's music in order to get their first hits; Stones with "Come on", Beach Boys with "Surfin USA" and "Fun Fun", Beatles with "Saw her standing", all early hits and all lifted from Chuck Berry. Rock music would be NOTHING without him, but I feel he only occasionally acknowledged, not quite a universal household name like his disciples.

@@IndiesoulMusik I completely agree that Berry's influence was huge over these groups, esp the only ones that really counted - Beatles and Stones. The Beach Boys and the Animals were greatly influenced too but their paths soon grew short. The Animals went out in a small puff of "Who cares?" as they didn't have a real composer and the Beach Boys creativity died after Pet Sounds with Brian W withdrawing. Berry was incredibly important to the start of rock n roll but imo has had more than his due credit. Behind the Beatles, Presley, Dylan and Stones he was ranked the most important musical figure in popular music at the end of last century and again the man never gave credit (even fought it thru court) to the man who co-wrote the bulk of gear credited solely to him. Lennon opening with what he did on Come Together was a tip of the hat to Berry same as Jagger when swiping "I can't get no satisfaction" ... ("I don't get no satisfaction" from "30 days"). However, tho this youtuber would probably assert that Jagger/Richards "ripped off" "30 days" simply because of a five word phrase, Berry's influence over the song was zip beyond that. Berry would never have been able to write it as it was too far outside his range as a songwriter. Dylan once quipped to Richards and Brian Jones that he could have written "Satisfaction" - which begs the question "Why didn't you then?" and the same could be thrown at Berry for "Come together". "Come together" is clearly Berry influenced but by the time Lennon wrote it, both he and McCartney along with Jagger/Richards (to a slightly lesser extent) had reshaped the composer paradigm of music which Berry had long been left behind from, save for his surprise novelty hit "My ding a ling" circa '72. Berry influenced them with writing but only to a point, Holly was just as influential and is known even less than Berry these days imo. And Holly was varied in his approach and covered different areas of music which is what gave the likes of Lennon/McCartney and Jagger/Richards to write with the depth to which they did - and Berry didn't - because he couldn't or at least if he could, he never presented it in his 60 plus year career. Berry could never have written "Lady Jane", "Midnight Rambler" or "Continental drift", "Strawberry Fields forever", "She said she said" or "Blackbird", but L/M and J/R could write Berry influenced songs such as "I saw her standing there", "Back in the U.S.S.R", "Come together", "Star star", "Connection" and "Flight 505" in their sleep. And although I agree that Berry's influence cannot be underrated, to say rock n roll would be "Nothing without him" is taking that point way too far for mine. Elvis, Buddy and Little Richard would argue the point I'm sure if alive. Especially the latter two who were songwriters as well as performers, unlike Elvis. His name shows as co-writer for "Heartbreak hotel" but it's well known it was added as nothing more than an incentive by the real writers for him to record it and "Love me tender" is a bunch of "cat sat on the mat" lyrics set to an old Civil war song "Aura Lea" melody that had been written almost a hundred years before. And again, Presley had nothing to do with the composition of music or lyrics. (Sorry the Presley bit was aimed at someone who I can't find now posting that Elvis wrote songs.) After all that, I agree that Chuck is a rock god. Just don't agree that he is quite as important as you state.

@@voodooinblue3450 I see your point but I feel Chuck Berry is portrayed often either as a tragic caricature, novelty act or as a scandalous figure certainly not revered on the level of Elvis or even Jerry Lee Lewis often gets more respect and both he and Elvis have links to underage girls. Chuck Berry wasn't a one trick pony either, listen to Memphis Tennessee or Almost Grown. For a man like Elvis who never wrote a tune in his lifetime and couldn't play any instrument particularly well, to be still hailed KING OF ROCK is what is truly scandalous.

I've never researched it, but I heard that it was actually Peter Asher at Apple that heard Taylor performing locally and signed him. The Beatles involvement at that time was merely as the owners of Apple. For those that don't know all the incest here, Peter Asher was the brother of Jane Asher, McCartney's longtime early girlfriend. Jane convinced Paul to assist her brother's duo, Peter and Gordon, by writing two massive hits for them to record, both of which climbed high in the charts, but were never recorded by the Beatles.

That's just a phrase, with no resemblance melodically though.

@@TheAerovons Actually, not even the phrase is the same. Taylor's says, "Something in the way she moves (or looks my way or calls my name)", while Harrison's says, "Something in the way she moves ME (attracts me like no other lover)", which has a different meaning.

@@theflash1425 No, George simply sings "Something in the way she moves."

@@TheAerovons Actually, we're both right. If you listen to the song, the first time he sings the line, he says, "Something in the way she moves", but when he repeats the line a measure later, he says, "Something in the way she moves me." I could have sworn he said the same thing the first time, but you made me listen to it, and damn if you weren't right!

yes it is a copy with different lyrics. latterly the beach boys credited chuck berry with the song. if you look it up now it has his name on it.

Almost, not, it's literally the same tune.

I believe “Surfin’ USA” is now credited as Wilson/Berry.

@@theonlyguiltymaninshawshan7909 I had a 33 of "Endless Summer" where it was actually just credited Berry.

@@fnjesusfreak seriously? No credit at all to Wilson? That surprises me.

Your Piano Teacher Friend never heard Chopin’s Nocturne in C Sharp Minor? I don’t believe you

@@pseudoprodigy he was child in the 60's when there was no internet and probably the piece itself wasn't so widely known as today after the pianist movie. I believe what he said, why would he stuff my brain with such lies?🤝

@@jozsefnemedi8472 That’s like saying I’m a history teacher but I’ve never heard of Gettysburg or Waterloo? And the excuse is there was no internet so how could I have known.

@@pseudoprodigy Not really.

@@arthurias7693 I have a bridge to sell you

It was a big radio hit as well. He may not remember it but no way he never heard it. These people ate music for breakfast....

By steeped you mean, like Led Zeppelin, seeing an opportunity to exploit black music for their own gain.

@@ingvarhallstrom2306 Of course he heard. George got the idea for My Sweet Lord from Bramlett in December 1969, as Bramlett not played He's So Fine on his guitar.

He obviously did, but forgot. It happens often. Running a song by some astute music listeners can help.

@@edgarwalk5637 George heard Bramlett play He's So Fine on guitar in December 1969. He wrote My Sweet Lord that same month, so he didn't have time to forget what he heard. Especially when many people warned him about plagiarism.

I came here to make exactly the same comment, so thank you.

Exactly!

Yup

@@CS-xt5qe Professional songwriters largely wrote the songs, borrowing styles from here there and everywhere (!). Studio musicians played on the album tracks (see Bernard Purdie) and The Beatles came in and did some singing. It's what happened with nearly every pop band in that era (including The Beach Boys) but people were led to believe the fab four were different. The Beatles myth of 200 penned songs in 7 yrs is just ludicrous given their schedules, lifestyles, and relative lack of musical knowledge.

Ecclesiastes 1:9 9 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

😂.... another way of saying we ain't paying anybody

@@pgroove163 That's true too. But I also think, take any popular composition in any idiom - jazz, blues, folk, all the genres of mass market popular music - and look around enough and you will always find the previous piece that it is most like. It might be in a different idiom and genre entirely and at first seem very different. But it will be there. it has to be.

@@pgroove163 with good reason. Does everybody who’s ever used a blues shuffle pattern have to pay the original artist who created it? No that would be ridiculous

And all books are rehashed. There are only a certain number of words in the dictionary!

That's an over simplification though and almost debases music and music writing.

There's a song by one repper that has exactly the same bass melody.

Weve all done it .. :( so hard to be original, especially when starting out

LOL. When I was 7, I came up with a parody of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Proud of myself, I sang the song to someone at school, who corrected me at one point. I thought, “you can’t correct me; I wrote this.” Turns out the parody already existed, almost identical to “mine”. What on earth was I dreaming when I thought I came up with it?

Ringo reported, he'd presented several times songs he'd "written", only to hear from the others that they already existed :D

I had the beginnings of a great song I was really excited about only to realize later that the melody was Raspberry Beret.

Which we now have!

Different but kinda similar.

I'm a George fan but I don't believe he never heard of HE'S SO FINE. Also both Delaney Bramlett and Billy Preston claim to have been a part of the writing of MY SWEET LORD. Both friends of George claim he knew that he was ripping off the Chiffons. But that was George. He made it a better tune anyway.

@@fredfreddy2338 Honestly just like a lot of these cases, I’d say it’s more gray than definitive. Whether you want to believe it or not, Harrison says in an interview not long after the experience they had him in court playing with musicologists and they found over twenty songs that use the same structure. A great famous example is killing joke and Nirvana, people trashed them for years even now still do for it when there’s over 5-6 songs that use the exact same structure, each not only years before one another but some from artists in different parts of the world who would have had a much less chance of hearing. Now I’m not gonna stand and defend that or even George for that matter it’s just as likely he copied the song and tried to get away with it. But honestly I just think it’s a case of so many others not just the one I listed (which by no means is an end all be all argument just an example) of just not only unconscious similarities but the fact there are only so many notes and so many structures songs are bound to sound similar.

I once wrote a clever guitar riff and played it to my friend. He went on the internet and the riff already was part of a song that wasn't crazy famous and that I have never heard before. I abandoned the riff and song project, but was happy that I was able to hear something I made up and know that it had merit. It wasn't rubbish like most stuff I come up with! I'll keep messy about with the guitar and perhaps I'll find a riff that has merit and is noteworthy, and is original!

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Paul: oh no my new song from my dream might be a rip off let me sit on it for weeks and tell everyone I know! 😇 Also Paul: John I love the new tune but that’s chuck berry’s song... let’s slow it down with a swampy vibe so he can’t tell 😈

So Paul made wise and honorable decisions in both cases.

He was sleeping, y'know?

@@stillaliveplus1forme ob your one of those people

Updated version?? by whom??? AND there's NO animal as an UPDATED VERSION . It is an +interpretation+ and the ORIGINAL WINS

I don't think hanging one's melody on a single note constitutes a copyright, nor would Lennon had to have heard it first to try the same himself. Single note melodies go back at least as far as Gregorian chants.

@mickavellian The actual ORIGINAL mix first appeared on the US Capitol album _Yesterday and Today._ It is not the same mix as the official version later released on Parlophone. And I agree - it is still the best mix by far, right down to the fake stereo processing that actually enhanced the track in this case.

David Lynch said 20 years ago that art is in fact devolving.

Yes, definately

Another potato defending theft

@@impacc4182 Hi Tomato!

@@impacc4182 lol.

Yes,much like an oral tradition.This is very evident in the Blues.

Yeah I agree. My sweet lord is way better than He’s so fine

My favorite... Beautiful music.

Harrison bought the song ...

You mean, He's So Fine is such a beautiful song. FIFY

I love George and think of them as 2 very distinct songs. But to say he had never heard He's So Fine before...what? How is that even possible?

Thanks 🙏

Johnnie sued having been urged to by a jerk-and....he lost the suit (note the actual spelling of Johnnie)

Kinda like the jerk Howard Stern and his fake musicologist friend, who urged the estate of Randy California to sue Zeppelin over stairway to heaven.

I'm gonna use that in a song!

led zeppelin in a nutshell ... just kidding!

Good artists borrow, great artists steal. Don't detract from their greatness.

Bob Dylan What's a Sweetheart like you doing in a dump like this.

As the great Tommy Emmanuel once said, "Everybody steals from Chet"

Take from one place, that's stealing. Take from several, that's influence.

@@JamoboBorg somebody takes your car so you gotta walk, that's stealing! Copyright infringement is not, neither is plagiarism. You could still be sued for either of those things, but calling it stealing is to redefine that verb although that verb is often used in that context.

That's the case in science, not in art! Science is much, much easier than art (and I say that as a representative of engineering science) ...

And give them the credits/ deserved monies.

Musicians don't make art for free, though. Pay those whose credit is due to them

🤣................just give me some truth

Flo & Eddie?

Another saying for theft

Then why aren’t all musicians rich and famous?

@@ps-yk8su For the same reason that all of Wall Street's top financial wizard$ couldn't get together and write a #1 classic jukebox rock hit to save their lives. Its all a big Fonzie scheme...

Lyrics that scream "Normalized domestic abuse"

John was based af

Ah, simpler times. ;)

Unfortunately all to prophetic

a lot of 60s music didnt age well it would be fun to play at a club with a buzzer on everyones table, and see if you could make it thru any songs without someone being offended Sweet Lorretta Martin thought she was a woman, but she was another man BZzZZZZzTTTTT!

Not really. There are probably trillions of unique melodies just using those 12 notes, not to mention rhythm!

@@ldgaming4213 Rhythm isn't always enough to keep people from suing you for "stealing" look what happened to Cold Play!

There aren't really only twelve notes, there are twelve notated notes in standard Western tuning. There are also many, many other notes between the notes, blues players know how to find them.

Seven, surely? C D E F G A B.

@@epipick c c# d d# E f f# g g# a a# b

@magicmusic8, this is why the music today 1/7/2022 sucks,reminds me of the /50's before Elvis. sad but true.

Thank you!

Or in this case "inspired" to "write" music. 😉

@@chiju Just make sure it's your own original music!

Inspired to lift notes from famous songs😯

So, you admit that you're inspired to steal.

I think a lot of people overlook the influence Chuck Barry had on the Beatles, and focus instead on the influence of Chuck Berry. Weird.

@@CoCotheTurtle Scottish/Irish music had a big influence on rock n roll and that was part of the Beatles heritage ,so it`s swings and roundabouts.

@@priyaxo8116 There isn't a person named CHUCK BARRY.

@@CoCotheTurtle hahaha I see the typo

There are a lot of Chuck Berry songs that sound exactly like. well, a lot of other Chuck Berry songs. Sometimes the only difference is the lyrics.

It's in public domain lol

Written before copytwright laws

Its the example of open citation. Love both great pieces of art! Merci bien for naming Rouget de Lisle.

It is the French national anthem stupid!

In the fade out you can hear the brass playing 'In The Mood' which George Martin thought was out of copyright, it wasn't..

What's the reference, I can't place it?

Take a load off Annie!

@@gregberry1812 Ah yes the band, good one, thanks! Sometimes I spend hours trying to remember what song the tiny little part of the song belongs to!

@@sammaloney1746 I wouldn't know the song were it not for the Grateful Dead.

@@gregberry1812 Well I much prefer the dead when they're doing their original stuff. But they'd a few great covers too all things considered!

@MichaelKingsfordGray Sure, all intelligent people put their real identities online, dear god.

Is this a game to see how many famous people we can attribute that quote to

Well, that's what they did. *Borrow* . Not *steal* .

@@TAJMofficial what a nice comment... Im gonna go for Picasso?

@@TAJMofficial I think he stole that quote

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Me too. It got me thinking; my favourite Beatles song is, I Want You (She's So Heavy) Tell me they didn't lift THAT from another musician

@@palliaskamen5722 find out who the musicians were that they lifted riffs or melodies from ..u just might like them just like the Beatles did.

@@pgroove163 yes! That’s really what got me into chuck berry and little richard’s music

Same

Maybe in a perfect world. See what happened in the Blurred lines lawsuit. They won cause of a style/groove were similar..

This song was listed as " Seventeen" on Meet The Beatles, I seem to recall.

Like I said in my other comment, you think Nike and Phil Night created the shoe? --- no, but they did add value to it. Same with million other industries, cars, homes, clothing lines, hats, TVs, pools, pool tables, furniture etc.,

It's funny. We Gotta Get Outa This Place has what I think is a certifiable justifiable bass line that was so identified with the song, it would be hard to pretend you made it up if it was in another song. There are many such bass licks. But then again, lyrics, progressions and melody should all be considered before getting all whacky about stealing someone else's music.

you are talking crap dude.. one thing is style one thing is using the same notes

They weren't inspired enuff to be original? The Beatles are trash. Elvis was the biggest theif of them all. Stop the foolishness

Yeah thanks to stuff like that, he was running out of money and that's the reason the remaining Beatles did Anthology (and why it ended early, George didn't really want to work on Johns unfinished songs).

@@Spaced92 The Anthology was what it was a carry over of the first BeaTles at the BBC (which Sir George Martin chose songs for the most part that sounded like his recordings). Not on the Anthology 1 vol. September Rain the best song on the Decca (hangover) Demo, Paul at his best, the Guitars with some dirt, and Pete Best. Also missing from BBC (yes it had to sound like a studio recording), the Six Songs from the Beatles appearance on the BBC, yes grainy off the air recordings, but significant, their first on the air performance, (March 7, 1962) and the last appearance with Pete Best (June 11, 1962). Roy Orbison's ‘Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream?)’ (no other recording) and ‘Ask Me Why’ first self penned Beatles song to play on the air-waves, and George singing ‘A Picture Of You’. (The other songs were ‘Memphis, Tennessee’ , ‘Please Mister Postman’). The recordings art studio quality, and from the various BBC recordings enough to fill six CD's although some have issues, there's a recording of the Beatles with Ringo of on drums, Roll Over Beethoven (initial voice over by the announcer), that is the Best live version of George singing with unbridled energy (better than the Star Club version) that's is about as close as you can get to how the Hamburg performances must have sounded and in the clubs in Liverpool and on tour, you know the quote by John on the best material (performances) were never recorded. "We were just a band that made it very, very, big that’s all. Our best work was never recorded. Because we were performers - in spite of what Mick says about us - in Liverpool, Hamburg and other dance halls. What we generated was fantastic, when we played straight rock, and there was nobody to touch us in Britain. As soon as we made it, we made it, but the edges were knocked off. George did all right financially before he passed away at 58...At the time of his death, George Harrison accumulated a colossal $400 million according to Celebrity Net Worth. The musician left his entire estate to widow Olivia Harrison and their son Dhani (who looks like a clone of his father).

Thank you for your interesting and informative comment.

@@seanclark2531 You are welcome.

I agree with the Judge: they are the same song with different lyrics. What are the chances of creating the same exact song never hearing the original?

Or subconscious borrowing. Even if you don't remember a song offhand, you might not _entirely_ forget it.

That´s because music is finite!

@@felipefernandes9053 And musicians rarely sue. Its a record company or family.

@@AaronOfMpls yup

Perfectly natural behavior.

Yes that's true, hence the term guitaristic. Only people who play really notice these things I think. Personally I was always struck by the differences between Joni Mitchell's guitar written and piano written songs, even though she liked open tunings...back when I was a fan.

Blues music,certainly

Yes, unless someone sued as they did with George Harrison then that's it , you can't make a case for something that is similar to another song & you can't now as the songs are over 50 years old anyway..

@@devonmoors "Blues" is also made by folks.

Folk music is not copyrighted because the original composer is unknown. So anyone can borrow an old folk tune and do something with it. Think Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan.

Lol bullshit. Chuck Berry was robbed by several artist for his art. Beatles were culture vultures

George said oh happy day influenced his song , not he’s so fine

That's what George was going for, "Oh Happy Day" but he changed it, as he didn't want to copy it, but he ended up changing it so much, it sounded similar to He's So Fine.

This!

Or rhythm. Duh.

Do you Want to know a secret...That is a "Cover Song" it was not written by John & Paul

an that was plagiarism??? That was Johnny remembering MOMMA

@@davemitch3389 I think you are thinking of "Till there was you" which is is from Music Man.

@@johnharris3657 You are right Sir... I will pull my head out of my ass now!

12 bar blues, 3 chord progression songs and Straight Rock and Roll all have the same DNA. Even lyrics spin into other songs even though they hover over the one particular passage. The result, a better mouse trap. (It's a metaphor Sluggo).

Ha - can you imagine: :You're breathing in exactly the same spot when playing my straight 8ths, ya thieving swine!" That'd be like trying to claim a standard root fifth bass-line in a country progression. Once a bass-line starts to get melodic, it becomes a somewhat different matter. The cat who composed the bass for Billie Jean should have got some money in my view, that line sells the song in a similar way to the way the gtr riff sells Sweet Child O' Mine. Also you're not going to win any friends trying to write new song and totally stealing the bass-line to Come Together. The song may have rested lyrically in part on a old Chuck Berry tune, but Paul and Ringo certainly value-added to that one - they created one of the all-time classic drum and bass combos. George's supportive rhythm part is just that - just colour. The drums and bass carry it.

@@ianbartle456 Yeah, it's considered a John Lennon classic, but I like to joke that it's a Berry-McCartney-Starkey collaboration.

I still think plagiarised is in accurate for many reasons. But fortunately, nobody's opinion matters more than the listener's experience. I'll wager Cole would be way to cool to gripe about it. Especially if he were to hear how MANY people revere and continue to emulate Paul's "Dream"

@@terrylodercreative Cole Porter? Nat King Cole? Natalie Cole?

@@jnagarya519 Helmut Kohl?

@@ianbartle456 Nah, Cheryl Cole, obviously.

You're an idiot. How does anyone go about proving to themselves, or anyone else for that matter, that they unconsciously plagiarized anything. It can't be done. That's the nature of the unconscious. It's unrecognizable because it's unconscious.

Both Delaney Bramlett and Billy Preston claimed to have helped him with the song and both say he knew exactly what he was doing. George promised Delaney that he would get a song writing credit but never did. It ended their friendship

@@tallmn1957 We'll never really know, but it's easy to believe those accounts.

@@tallmn1957 I wanted to thank you for bring up Delaney Bramlett's connection to "My Sweet Lord." 🤟 It caused me to mine a bunch of info about his claim to have co-authored the song, and Bonnie Bramlett's testimony that got thrown out of court. I even found a bit supposedly posted by Coco Carmel who claims she was there (among others) as the song was being concocted. It's like I suspected: conflicting stories, hearsay, he said/she said types of accounts. In the end, it doesn't really matter, but it is very interesting for a rock history buff such as myself. As a coda to the whole saga, Delaney Bramlett orally claimed composer credits and/or inspiration for "My Sweet Lord," yet he never brought a legal suit of his own 🤨

The similarity comes down to the rhythm, and half a bar of melody. If that was grounds for a copyright claim the whole intellectual property rights system would collapse. Bobby Parker is being highly disingenuous here.

and when played backwards under the overhead projection of a Pentagram, one can clearly hear Stevie Nicks.

Which, in turn, seems to have been inspired on the Wabash Blues.

And the beginning is a standard lick from 1000's of rock songs and 1000's more used to end with a sliding 9th chord and so what?

So what! That proves absolutely nothing.

@@2011littlejohn1 doesn’t it end on a 6th?

@@richardk1ify Yes you're right. Still very trad rock ending. :) I think they did that on Help too.

Great comment which I expect will be stolen for use in some mass media presentation .

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Oscar wilde said something like that too when he was alive.

None of which makes T. S. Eliot's poetry worth rereading after the first time.

MIck Jagger said this also

My dude, that’s a SCALE sound, it can’t be owned

Which Bourrée? There are loads of them.

Surprised that wasn't included

I think that is not disguised. It's almost a sample, not a rip-off. Like Greensleaves in the fade out of All You Need is Love.

@@garethb1961 Yeah it definitely just a nod to the song, not ripping-off

@@garethb1961 You mean the fade in right? The fade out is she loves you by the Beatles themselves!

I knew about that one. Of course, it was quite a deliberate lift from the original song, but was only done for a small section of Harrison’s recording.

Inspiration vs imitation...

@@kenlieck7756 Imitation is the highest form of flattery

@@Atlas-Heisenberg_756 not if you don’t credit or pay the people you imitate lol

@@impacc4182 Flattery was designed as something to distract people from the fact that you're ripping them off!

@@kenlieck7756 exactly

John did NOT write the part. Paul did. ANd It was clearly defined because neither Ringo or George liked it.. It is indeed a cheesy throw away.. Whatever happened TO The love that we once KNEW CRINGE!

@@mickavellian You're wrong about that. In John Lennon's demo for "Free as a bird" with just him at the piano, Lennon sings "What ever happened to, the life that we once knew...." then he diddle-dees the rest of the melody, which Paul added the rest of the words to. But the idea and melody was from John and indeed it was riped from the shangri-las

It's mystifying to hear people totally miss the point of three chord progression songs and the inevitable circumstance of similar yet distinct work. The cadence of the songs is similar. But denying decades of separation with respect to creative process and this mathematical probability just serve to point out that similarities will happen. The conclusion does not have to be yes or no as to whether one copied the other. Ludicrous reasoning really.

@@terrylodercreative You're right; that's what I said :->

Although I liked what he said as well, it does strike me that its because he had stolen before and so it was easy for him to forgive.

Well let’s hope when something is taken from you you keep the same energy and say no merit.

@@sunnydelight5255 What I won't do is sue someone because I'm a greedy asshole who's hoping a court will grant me a settlement. Did you decide to get on youtube and purposely act obtuse just so you can act superior to someone you don't know?

Couldn't agree more, a class act. And nothing is really stolen from you if you still have it.

I would say that ALL musicians borrow, steal and copy from others. Some just admit it. If there is an artist out there who claims everything they've done is completely original then they are a liar.

Gotta agree with you. Plus, Phil Spector produced My Sweet Lord. Spector was no doubt very familiar with hits by girl groups in the early 60s, so I cannot believe he didn't hear the similarity between the two songs and at least mention it to George.

He bought the entire publishing company, didn't he? So he ended up with his own money back!

Well well well, how the turn tables

That's a boss move right there lol.

He didn’t, Allan Klein bought the publishing co and George had to pay him over 500,000 dollars the amount Klein paid for the Co

He liked it so much!

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What are you talking about! Complete nonsense!

@@roberthowes5838 it's a joke Bob

That one was like a hand grenade.... I'm going: "This bloke is Bonkers!" and then the light of humor shone it's rewritten light on me and I just ..... smiled... which of course, I had done before. But this time I stole my laugh from Glen Campbell.

Isn't there a line on Hey Jude that goes something like that? You are right, and while it's a different field this is also what happens in technical inventions. The much-celebrated Apple iPod and iPhone didn't spring fully formed out of a vacuum. Also its probably no accident that the idea of 'inventions' is also a musical concept - it's used in classical music to describe when a composer take a a pre-existing musical idea or theme and then embellishes or develops it into a new composition - an idea not entirely unknown in jazz!

Really ? So what songs or sounds did iron maiden ever steal ? The beatles had no talent.

@@mgtowchampion7961 You have no brain if you think that.

@@vrinda5303 just go away and smoke your drugs.

@@vrinda5303 beatles got sued 4 times in court stfu.

yeh but most of these are sus and if anyone 'accidentally' lifted a beatles song, they would sue the sh1t out of them, so...