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| From | "Jeff" <jeff.teez@comcast.net> |
| Subject | Re: beatles |
| Date | Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:14:31 -0500 |
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At Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:38:06 Marty wrote:
>And yet there's more:
>
>Come Together / Here come ole flat top - Chuck Berry (I think John got
>sued)
> No...instead of a lawsuit Lennon recorded the "Rock And Roll" album
> material
> for Chuck Berry's manager's record label Adam VII...or something to
> that
> effect (which in itself had a long, drawn out legal battle before
> getting
> officially released on Capitol....which was Lennon's label at the
> time).
> Jaimie Vernon
Maybe, but here's more:
Two of the song lines referring to "old flat top" were lifted from Chuck
Berry's "You Can't Catch Me" and John WAS later sued for plagiarism.
John strenuously denied any musical theft. The conflict was resolved
when John promised to record 3 songs belonging to the publisher of "You
Can't Catch Me". He fulfilled this promise when he recorded Berry's
"Sweet Little 16" and "YCCM" for his Rock N Roll album and Lee Dorsey's
"Ya Ya" on "Walls and Bridges".
- paraphrased from Steve Turner's "A Hard Day's Write: The Stories
Behind Every Beatles Song", c. 2005
jeff t.
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