Mack_Again
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at this point U2 can sue Coldplay. and U2 can probably win that case.
Well, John Fogerty did get sued for ripping himself off!
Lol, yes I just learned that over at atU2.![]()
Yeah, they really did nick the song at the end of the day, the Verve did.yeah except Bittersweet Symphony used a sample. This track bears no relation to the Fly at all.
Was funny. All Bono did was snippet Walking Away a couple of times. More similar than this. Much more. And Walking Away was a huge hit, if I remember correctly.
I thought the Led Zeppelin lawsuit had way more weight than this. This is also seemingly zero evidence that any members of U2 would have even heard this song. With Led Zeppelin there were at least anecdotes of them watching Spirit perform live or something like that...
Yeah, they really did nick the song at the end of the day, the Verve did.
The only thing original about Bittersweet Symphony are the lyrics. I have no idea what you're talking about.there was also no evidence that george harrison had ever heard "he's so fine" before he wrote "my sweet lord", but somehow the judge managed to believe that he must have heard it once and then subconsciously plagiarized it seven years later (with the entire beatles period in between), so precedence says that sort of evidence is really not required in cases like this. fuck allen klein.
if they'd released that song today nobody on earth would bat an eye at the use of that line. it's not even a sample, it's a reversed riff played forward with entirely different instruments, and a whole lot else layered on top of it. nowadays you can just sample huge portions of another artist's song straight up and not even credit them (eg kanye's "father stretch my hands" used "panda"s entire chorus outright and nobody knew it was desiigner at first until that song got popular in its own right). even way back when (1967), the song "mr. soul" by buffalo springfield uses the exact same riff as "satisfaction", played exactly the same over and over again. that was released less than two years after "satisfaction" and neil young has always admitted that he directly and intentionally stole the riff.
the verve did nothing unusual in the industry, they just were the unlucky ones to be fucked over by a greedy asshole who once the song got to #1 saw an opportunity to enrich himself off someone else's work. fuck allen klein.
The only thing original about Bittersweet Symphony are the lyrics. I have no idea what you're talking about.
They absolutely stole the cover, how can you not hear that? It's exactly the same...Regardless of your opinion on that topic, it's not like it was a stolen piece of music. It was properly sampled, turned into something popular, and then attacked over money.
After that horrible Blurred Lines verdict though, I don't even know what would be safe anymore.![]()
here's the tune, it was even used for a demo version of Bittersweet Symphony. I thought'd I'd read that the idea of even using samples was brought up much later when they were recording the proper track.maybe not.
Either way, the sample kind of hurts them, because once you start linking the track to The Last Time it just makes you realise the vocal melody in the verses is lifted from it anyway, whether or not it was intentional.
If Alan had been so (puts on shades) ...inkleined, he could have easily gone after them for that alone if they hadn't used any samples. And knowing him he probably would have if the song had somehow been as big a hit without any.
It just sounds like a complete fucking mess, what happened after. They did everything by the book with the sample, then get fucked over because the song was so successful.
Such a same, because it's a fantastic track!
Waiting 25 years to bring it up, uploading the tune on the day of the announcement to make the point, pretty silly.
Huffington Post needs to get its shit together. That's not Bono lol. U2 Sued For Allegedly Stealing 'The Fly' From British Songwriter | The Huffington Post
Huffington Post needs to get its shit together. That's not Bono lol. U2 Sued For Allegedly Stealing 'The Fly' From British Songwriter | The Huffington Post
They absolutely stole the cover, how can you not hear that? It's exactly the same...
It's someone plagiarizing Bono's look.![]()