The Verve had already completed their recording when they realized that, while they had cleared rights to the actual recording, they hadn’t to the composition. Yet, according to Fred Goodman, who wrote the book Allen Klein about the Stones’ notoriously controlling manager, every cent of the composing royalties wound up going to Klein’s clients, Jagger and Richards. The essential Verve song sounds quite different from the earlier track. For their 1990s smash Bittersweet Symphony, the Verve sampled part of a string version of the Stones’ 1965 recording of The Last Time, a section actually written and arranged by Dick Whitaker. Still another case involving the Verve and the Rolling Stones shows just how strange these suits can be. The thrust, and appeal, of the songs has far more to do with the way the stars color and deliver the tunes than with the bare, undifferentiated chords lolling through the chorus. Where Petty is emphatic, Smith is effusive. Petty sings in a straightforward way Smith flutters grandly. The two hits find far greater definition through some significant distinctions in their melodies, as well as in their respective performances. In fact, the overlapping sections of the songs are so simplistic as to nearly erase themselves from memory. Moreover, the similarity in sound has more to do with the rudimentary nature of the songs’ compositions than with any striking originality on Petty’s part. Won’t Back Down moves from E minor to D to G Stay With Me progresses from A minor to F to C.
![cave story theme cohords cave story theme cohords](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5VAJOSf8JzQ/mqdefault.jpg)
True, each of the song’s choruses employs descending chords which sound similar. Without that final rounding of the notes as created by Page, the opening of Stairway wouldn’t have had nearly the same resonance it has had.Īnother complaint, by Tom Petty against Sam Smith, was settled quickly and stealthily out of court last year.
![cave story theme cohords cave story theme cohords](https://musicnotesbox.com/media/catalog/product/n/i/nick_cave-do_you_love_me_-sheet-music-thumbnail.png)
Most crucially, the arpeggio in Taurus does not resolve the one in Stairway does, changing the whole flavor of this section of the song and creating its own melodic hook. While the early notes in each piece sound similar, there are key variations. That’s a progression that, as even the judge on the case has acknowledged, has been employed by many songwriters. In Led Zeppelin’s case, both the Page and Wolfe songs spin on an A minor arpeggio. A broad array of elements draws us to a song, and ultimately those elements define the piece to a far finer degree than the isolated, often lesser, sections which set these cases in motion.
![cave story theme cohords cave story theme cohords](https://www.chords.vip/images/song-lyrics/chord_adina_rancid.jpg)
In fact, most such cases ignore the wide range of sounds and performance styles that fans hear, and respond to, when listening to a record. Worse, the recent escalation in plagiarism cases sets a precedent so onerous it could make many musicians spend more time in court than on the road. Yet even when artists avoid the garishness, and whims, of a jury trial, the attendant publicity puts the accused in a shady light. To avoid judgments so consequential, other stars have made undisclosed payoffs to the aggrieved. Last year, Thicke and Pharrell Williams were ordered to pay a record-setting $7.2m to the estate of Marvin Gaye, after a court ruled that they pilfered parts of the soul icon’s 1977 song Got to Give It Up for their smash Blurred Lines. Zeppelin’s decision not to settle carries significant risk.
CAVE STORY THEME COHORDS TRIAL
The family of Randy Craig Wolfe, deceased author of Taurus, first made these allegations several years ago, but it’s only coming to trial now. The suit contends that the Brit-rockers lifted a portion of a 1968 instrumental by Spirit, called Taurus, for the opening chords of their 1971 FM radio classic Stairway To Heaven. It will pit the estate of one member of the 60s psychedelic rock band Spirit against the lead writers of Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page. The latest and mostly hotly anticipated case starts next month.