Originally Posted By: VideoTrack
It's arguable that there are definite similarities between the two songs.

(Whether any party should contemplate taking any legal action is an entirely different matter.)

I think the purpose of the evaluation was only to determine if there was any "likeness", not to determine if there should be any legal action taken by the relevant parties.

Cheers
Trevor


bingo!!

to my ear there seems to be a certain likeness to these 2 songs. Perhaps not intentional.... how many of us have sat down to start writing a "new song" and came up with a brilliant song..... then one of our friends, upon hearing it says, "man that sounds just like so and so's song".....?

I know I have. Several times.... and I've caught myself a bunch more.

On this song, the intro with the piano riff, the groove of the song, the tempo to some degree, and the melody line are all pretty close to each other......

Either way, I'm rather glad that Alan P didn't contact his lawyers and instigate a case. Remember that case where George Harrison was sued for 3 freaking notes on My Sweet Lord? And Men at work were sued by the owner of the Kooka Burra song for the flute part melody in their Men at work song......

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