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Old 07-18-2012, 09:40 PM   #1 (permalink)
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The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony



Bittersweet Symphony's a good song but there's no arguing that the main hook was ripped off.
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Old 07-18-2012, 10:08 PM   #2 (permalink)
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The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony



Bittersweet Symphony's a good song but there's no arguing that the main hook was ripped off.
huh? they didn't rip it off

it was actually a sample, and The Verve acknowledges Oldham as a writer in its credits
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I like both versions. I guess you could say that Led Zeppelin was the Coldplay of their day.



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Dazed and Confused was written by the folk-rock singer Jake Holmes and released as a track in his debut album "The Above Ground Sound" Of Jake Holmes in 1967. That same year Jake Holmes opened for The Yardbirds in a show in New York where Jimmy Page heard the song. The song was rearranged and later became one of Led Zeppelin best-known songs, the debt to Jake Holmes however went largely unacknowledged by the band.
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