Cracked.com has made a list of seven famous musicians they are saying may have stolen some of the ideas from other musicians for many of their hottest hits. And perhaps they are onto something……..
The numbered list goes like this:
#7 Green Day
- Cracked posted several reasonable similarities between Green Day and other predecessors; however, the most shocking is Greens Day’s Warning in comparison with The Kinks’ Picture Book
- Green Day – Warning
- The Kinks – Picture book
#6 Oasis
- Check out Oasis’ Cigarettes and Alcohol and then look up any version of the T.Rex hit Get It On (Bang A Gong).
- Oasis Cigarettes and Alcohol
- T.Rex hit Get It On (Bang A Gong)
#5 Radiohead
- The Similarities between Radiohead’s Creep and The Hollies’ The Air That I Breath are so strong a court ordered Radiohead to share writing credits after The Hollies’ won an infringement case against the other musicians.
#4 The Beatles
- If you really listen very close you may find there are similarities between The Beatles’ I Feel Fine and Bobby Parkers’ Watch Your Step
- The Beatles’ I Feel Fine
- Watch Your Step – Bobby Parker
#3 The Strokes
- All you have to do is listen to the first riff of Tom Petty’s American Girl While Simultaneously Playing The Strokes’ Last Night. It will take a few seconds before they are out of sync .
- Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers – American Girl
- The Strokes – Last Night
#2 John Williams
- John Williams, Composer of many movie themes (i.e. the Star Wars Theme), perhaps was more than a little inspired by Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony 9 when he was penning the Jaws Theme.
- Antonín Dvořák – Symphony No. 9
#1 Madonna
- Public Enemy Alleged that Madonna took her enticing beat for her 90’s hit Justify My Love from their not so-sexually-charged tune Security Of The First World. The Court agreed with them, allowing them an unnamed settlement plus writing credits from the Pop Queen.
- Madonna vs Public Enemy
Whether it was intentional or not, the writers and musicians’ original creations turned out to be not so unique at all.
