![]() ![]() SIEGEL: Is there any indication, by the way, that when somebody does sue, is there any flurry of purchases when it's getting a lot of attention in the plagiarism suit? It's now over 50 years old and, you know, the amount of originality you could have may be starting to get limited. One is there's just a very large quantity of recorded music. ENGLISH: It happens quite often for a lot of different reasons. SIEGEL: Is it a degree of similarity that strikes you as very rare, or does this happen in rock music? But when you hear the two songs together, they certainly do sound similar to my ears. They're kind of working in slightly different genres where almost all of Joe Satriani's music is instrumental, and of course, Coldplay working in a more pop, mainstream area. TIM ENGLISH (Author, "Sounds Like Teen Spirit"): They certainly sound very similar. Tim English, are these songs, would you say, similar? English has written a book about songs with similar sounds. Well, Timothy English joins me now from our New York Studios to thrash all this out. A little extra tension here: Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" CD is a big hit and a Grammy Award nominee. And when he didn't hear back after several months, he filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Coldplay last week. SIEGEL: Joe Satriani is a rock guitarist, and he says he tried to contact Coldplay. Now if you were listening to this and your name happened to be Joe Satriani, and you were concentrating less on the lyrics than on the music, well, it might have made you think about a song that you wrote and performed in 2004, an instrumental called "If I Could Fly." Now I sleep alone, sweep the streets I used to own." The lyric made at least one magazine writer I read think of the Wall Street meltdown. SIEGEL: That string-saturated song is called "Viva La Vida" by the band Coldplay. Now in the morning I sleep alone, Sweep the streets I used to own. If you were near a radio or an MP3 player or in a bar last summer, you might have found it impossible to avoid hearing this song.ĬOLDPLAY: (Singing): I used to rule the world. ![]()
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