Apparently, Ann and Nancy Wilson are suing the McCain/Palin campaign over use of "Barracuda"

TMZ ^ | 09/04/08 | TMZ

[Prime Mover]

Ann and Nancy Wilson are pissed at the Republican Party and have fired off a cease and desist letter to the McCain/Palin campaign.

Specifically, the Heart women are upset that the GOP has used their classic "Barracuda" as a theme song for Sarah Palin. TMZ obtained a statement from Heart's rep, who says "The Republican campaign did not ask for permission to use the song, nor would they have been granted that permission."

The statement goes on: "We have asked the Republican campaign publicly not to use our music. We hope our wishes will be honored."

We're told Ann was watching TV today and heard the song at the convention when Palin was touted.

[Prime Mover]

Can they do that?

Geez.... talk about needing to call the "Wah-mbulance".

[Deetes]

Sue for your royalties ;-))) LOL

[uglybiker]

They don't want to be reminded of a time when they were able to play good music.

[LibFreeUSA]

Fine! Let’s have John Rich compose and sing his own “SarahCuda” song for us!!!

Who can send out an email and let him know?

[wireman]

Is Ann the decent looking redhead or the gigantic scary looking brunette?

[politicalwit]

I say give them their $0.03 royalty and let them be happy someone played their old, outdated music.

[Question Liberal Authority]

“Garbled in transmission. Tell them to resend.”

[Tzimisce]

Gee - what happened to free speech and free expression? I thought you libs loved that type of stuff.

[dragonblustar]

Ha! I was wondering about that. Libs hate it when their songs are being used by republicans.

[FredZarguna]

When was that?

[LibFreeUSA]

I wonder if every Wedding DJ now needs to get “approval” for playing songs at social events???

[SAJ]

Better still, tell the campaign to ONLY play 16 bars at a time. Protected under ‘fair use’ (or at least it used to be...was involved in a lawsuit on this very point years ago).

[Petronski]

Palin: Beautiful
Heart: uh, not so much

[llevrok]

If a tune is sold to and marketed by a record company with royalties paid to the artists, what “right” do they have to sue? (could the Hendrix estate sue Muzak?)

[FlingWingFlyer]

LOL! Looks like McCain/Palin is about to be Jackson Browned by another couple of lefty has beens. Those people are sick.

[dfwgator]

You knew this was coming.

[Secret Agent Man]

Personally, if I never heard “barracuda” one more time, I’d be perfectly happy. I thought the song kind of sucks. Maybe if Blondie, when Debbie Harry had her really good pipes, did a cover, I bet that would sound good.

[Political Junkie Too]

Ann's the heavy one, Nancy is the tall one.

-PJ

[skimask]

If the song is over 17 years old its a moot point.