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Cat Stevens: Coldplay Stole My Song (Yusuf Islam Accuses Chris Martin of 'Vida La Vida' Theft)
New Music Express ^ | May 4, 2009

Posted on 05/04/2009 10:41:31 AM PDT by lewisglad

Cat Stevens has said that he believes that Coldplay's hit 'Viva La Vida' is a take-off of his own song, 'Foreigner Suite'.

Coldplay recently denied accusations by guitarist Joe Satriani, who claims that the band ripped him off for the song – but Stevens has since told The Sun that it's he who the band had been taking inspiration from.

"There's been this argument about Coldplay stealing this melody from Joe Satriani," he said. "But, if you listen to it, it's mine! It's the [1973 song] 'Foreigner Suite', it is!"

Stevens did not suggest that he would take legal action against the band.

In 2003 The Flaming Lips agreed to split royalties for their song 'Fight Test' with Stevens after it was deemed to be similar to his 1970 hit 'Father And Son'


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KEYWORDS: catstephens; catstevens; crazy; idiot; nutcase
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To: lewisglad

Hope they all sue each other into oblivion!


41 posted on 05/04/2009 11:50:38 AM PDT by Poison Pill (Given enough time, everything becomes illegal.)
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To: lewisglad

Time for you to face Mecca and stick your butt in the air, Cat.


42 posted on 05/04/2009 11:53:00 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: dfwgator

I figure they must have ripped it off somewhere, because it’s
their only song i like.


43 posted on 05/04/2009 12:02:24 PM PDT by gussiefinknottle (woof!woof!woof!)
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To: lewisglad

I thought that music was the satanic work of the infidel?


44 posted on 05/04/2009 12:07:37 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: windcliff

ping


45 posted on 05/04/2009 12:28:28 PM PDT by stylecouncilor (The black man is keeping me down!)
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To: lewisglad

Yusif! Yusif! I thought you had given up on ‘materialism’ and your former life...

Why should you care even if they DID steal a riff or two?

aaaahhh, you STILL care about them there ROYALTIES huh???


46 posted on 05/04/2009 12:47:54 PM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: lewisglad

So Cat Stevens invented the C-A-G-Bm riff. I listened to that song and it sounds NOTHING like Viva La Vida. Now when The Red Hot Chili Peppers basically reworded Tom Petty’s Mary Jane’s Last Dance with Dani California, I could understand the stink.


47 posted on 05/04/2009 12:50:54 PM PDT by DadOfFive
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To: Frantzie

I liked his music at one time, but can’t help think of the Rusdhie edict which I hear his name or music. Peace Train? What a hypocrite.


48 posted on 05/04/2009 1:26:45 PM PDT by BlueStateBlues (Blue State for business, Red State at heart.........2012--can't come soon enough.)
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To: Blue Highway

More from the Coldplay - Satriani story.


49 posted on 05/04/2009 5:56:04 PM PDT by perfect stranger (Nobama)
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To: lewisglad
In 2003 The Flaming Lips agreed to split royalties for their song 'Fight Test' with Stevens after it was deemed to be similar to his 1970 hit 'Father And Son'

I actually noticed the similarities in these two songs, but it wasn't a ripoff as much as an homage.

Seriously, a couple of the phrasings were sort of a tip of the hat to Father and Son, but there were not a lot of similarities beyond that. Fight Test was about a guy regretting pussying out of a confrontation.

50 posted on 05/04/2009 6:03:07 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: perfect stranger

Yeah I hear the similarity, but the Satriani song is an exact match to the Coldplay song.


51 posted on 05/04/2009 8:58:06 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: perfect stranger

Thanks again for the 360, I’m enjoying it right now.


52 posted on 05/04/2009 9:00:43 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: My Favorite Headache
Coldplay will be irrelevant and gone the way of Oasis by 2012.

Agree. With Coldplay, there's no there there.

53 posted on 05/04/2009 9:50:37 PM PDT by Yardstick
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