I just heard a rumor that the estate of Randy Wolfe of the band Spirit is being sued. Lawyers representing the estate of George Harrison have pointed out that the intro to Wolfe’s song Taurus — a relative minor chord with a prominant descending baseline — is eerily similar to the intro to While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
There is another rumor that the estate of George Harrison of the band The Beatles is being sued by The Walt Disney Company on behalf of songwriter Richard Sherman. Laywers representing Disney have pointed out that the intro to Harrison’s song While My Guitar Gently Weeps — a relative minor chord with a prominant descending baseline — is eerily similar to the intro to Chim Chimney.
Rumor also has it that the whole seedy affair is blowing up into a major scandal, on a par with the Panama Papers. It seems that hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of songwriters have been blatantly stealing this musical structure from each other, in a major creative crimewave that has been going on for centuries.
Lawyers are very happy.