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Having listened, it does seem to have exactly the same tune, chord progression, vocal style and atmosphere as far as the bridge, at least. It thus rather beggars belief that Lana herself, a presumably professional team of musicians, producers, etc. could listen to her song all the way through production up to its inclusion on the album and not at any stage think, "Hang on, we've just recorded Creep with different words here". Hard to argue that Radiohead's lawyers don't have a case.
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Even Sam Smith had the good sense to go "yup...busted...here's your credit" before it got much farther than a polite letter from Mr Petty.
I mean, even if she'd called it Creeper and tried to position it as an homage or tribute or something, but to flat-out deny it?
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Apparently she doesn't recognise that her writers ripped off "Creep", yet offered Radiohead 40% of the publishing royalties.
I mean, that's not a brilliant bartering position, is it? "I don't believe we have plagiarised you, but take 40% and please don't sue me".
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I presume the 40% number recognises that it's the first part of the song that is problematic rather than the whole thing. I mean it's clearly Creep, so they must know they have no leg to stand on arguing otherwise. The haggling is over what percentage "belongs" to Radiohead
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And Radiohead ripped off Albert Hammond & Mike Hazlewood's song "The Air That I Breathe" for Creep. The writers had to sue Radiohead before the band folded. Hammond later said, magnanimously: "Radiohead agreed that they had actually taken it. Because they were honest they weren't sued to the point of saying 'we want the whole thing'. So we ended up just getting a little piece of it."
Anyway, Radiohead and Lana Del Rey are both Tel Aviv gigs almuni. So fuck them both.
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Originally posted by Sits View PostCan Hammond and Hazlewoid sue Lana if Radiohead succeed?
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Originally posted by ad hoc View PostIf Radiohead succeed (ie they get the 100% they are asking for) then there's nothing left to sue LDR for. Worth noting that the exact bit of Creep that DelRay has ripped off is the bit that Radiohead ripped off Hammond and Hazlewood
Worth noting here that this is an album track and not in the same worldwide No 1 league as Blurred Lines.
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