Probably like ‘My Sweet Lord/He’s So Fine... an unconscious borrow. As Tiny Tim used to say... ‘Eight notes, it’s only eight notes...’
There are actually twelve notes in Western music. There are seven notes in a key, the 8th being the octave. Of course, there are actually an infinite number of notes, but not very many that sound good together.
“As Tiny Tim used to say... ‘Eight notes, it’s only eight notes...”
Tiny Tim was a genius. A lot of people didn’t care for him, but he had an amazing catalog estimated at over 10,000 tunes memorized for immediate recall. That’s astounding!
His catalog, or repertoire extended back through Vaudeville, ragtime, “Jass”... an absolutely incredible gift.
About the Quarteflash and Benatar similarities, that whole era of music, (which I did enjoy even though I come from an earlier generation) had some nice fresh music and both those songs along with Loverboy and other groups - all sound similar... or at least the production did. It was the beat of the day, the driving rhythm, and sounded like half a dozen other outfits due to that guitar driven chunky rhythm.
Good stuff