Ripping off other tunes

[chriswallace85]

Never been to keen on The Police, but just listened to this...

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....after reading this about Edge of Seventeen...

Throughout the song, a distinctive 16th note guitar riff is played by

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, progressing through C, D, and E-minor chords. During the bridge, the chords alternate twice between E-minor and C. Nicks's backing band recommended that they emulate

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's "

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" for the guitar riff, although Wachtel was unfamiliar with the song.

"I had never heard "Bring On the Night," and at that session they told me they were going to do this song based on this feel. I had heard something about the Police, but I didn't know what they were talking about. Then about two years ago, I had the radio on, and on comes what sounds like "Edge of Seventeen" – and all of a sudden, there's voice! I thought, 'We ripped them off completely!' I called Stevie that night and said, 'Listen to me, don't ever do that again!'"

Edge of Seventeen's a miles better song like. Miles better. Country miles.

Get in, it's Warren Zevon

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Oh. Turn that radio off, would you?

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But then, surely both are just sweet home Alabama?

Rock doesn't even try to hide it.

I first became aware of Werewolves of London when local act Jonny Boyle would mash the two together at buskers evenings. This was before the Kid Rock song came out.

Good turn Jonny Boyle like.

Insert everything by Jimmy Page here.

If owt was lifted, it was lyrics and melodies. The riffs were all Page.

A very similar song written by Jimmy Page, probably with help from his 14 year old girlfriend.

Case in point. Robert's lifted the vocal, but the riff, the music, is all Page.

Plant explained in an interview with :

Page's riff was Page's riff. It was there before anything else. I just thought, 'well, what am I going to sing?' That was it, a nick. Now happily paid for. At the time, there was a lot of conversation about what to do. It was decided that it was so far away in time and influence that ... well, you only get caught when you're successful. That's the game.

Tom Petty was my favourite. It was brought to his attention that someone had ripped off one of his songs. He gave it a listen and drawled, 'I probably stole it from Eddie Cochrane anyways',
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Some people haven't the foggiest how these things work.

Naaa - I'm not having that. Roy Bittan plays piano on both, and the similarities end there.
Came across this song on Yellowstone which sounds very similar to Wake Me Up by Avicii & Aloe Blacc...


Now that's a rip-off.