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(Yahoo) Fail Ex-Thin Lizzy guitarist Gary Moore loses plagiarism case for lifting the main theme of Lionel Richie's 1984 song "Hello" for the solo of his 1990 song "Still Got the Blues". Achtung   (fe10.story.media.ac4.yahoo.com) divider line 18
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King Something [TotalFark] 2008-12-03 11:20:28 PM  
[This post has been removed due to a copyright claim by Lionel Richie]

 
LarrytheBlueOkie 2008-12-03 11:22:23 PM  
I'm sorry. Is there something written in invisible code in this article that concerns Lionel Richie?

 
GungFu 2008-12-03 11:28:02 PM  
Subtard should really include an:

/obscure

so people on Fark will get what the headline means. Otherwise the subtard remains subtarded.

/subtard

 
Uzzah 2008-12-03 11:49:50 PM  
Submitter:

i290.photobucket.com

 
Gangway Fathead 2008-12-04 01:47:31 AM  
I don't get the headline, but Gary Moore's version of "Shapes of Things" still rocks my world.

 
Soup_In_A_Basket 2008-12-04 05:01:06 AM  
Fanatical Fascists.

/Deutschland Uber Alles

 
tequilasundae 2008-12-04 07:09:48 AM  
had to rifle through very cluttered memory banks for that one....they just NOW tried this??

 
tequilasundae 2008-12-04 07:11:35 AM  
oh and lionel wasnt involved,..i shouldnt assume and just RTFA

 
MFL 2008-12-04 09:26:37 AM  
Still got the Blues...I got that cassette somewhere in my closet.

 
mhd 2008-12-04 10:34:56 AM  
tequilasundae: had to rifle through very cluttered memory banks for that one....they just NOW tried this??

The trial went on almost as long as that note in Parisienne Walkways.

It's a bit hard to prove that someone copied the solo from a song that never was released on tape or CD and only got played on radio for a short while. The youtube video of the song sounds _just_ the same as the Still Got the Blues, but that was a pretty recent recording.

In the end, no one accused Mr. Moore of deliberately copying the solo, they just assumed he had heard it and replicated it 16 years later...

Incidentally, that would make us Germans be responsible for the poor downturn of Gary's career, as he made some pretty rockin' albums before but since SGtB, it's all lame white boy blues (and even some pseudo-indutrial sounds, if I don't confuse him with another artist).

/Nuclear Attack FTW
//Never heard of the German artist. He's no Hasselhoff.

 
Vertical_vorticity 2008-12-04 10:56:11 AM  
Good thing Grieg, Beethoven and Lizst are all dead - if alive today, they'd be facing numerous lawsuits from backwoods folk for "stealing" their traditional melodies and turning them into timeless masterpieces.

 
BobSherunkle 2008-12-04 11:06:28 AM  
mhd: The trial went on almost as long as that note in Parisienne Walkways.


nice

 
WalkingSnake 2008-12-04 12:31:49 PM  
img171.imageshack.us

/obscure?

 
Will Explode 2008-12-04 02:02:18 PM  
That "song" was a blemish on an otherwise ripping album with amazing guitar work. I recognized the rip-off the moment I first heard the song. But WOW the guitar work on the rest of the album.

 
cabritosaurio 2008-12-05 06:50:32 AM  
I don't care if it is stolen, Gary Moore plays it way better than the original. Waaaaaaaaaay.

href="http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=4059075 &IDComment=46833 690#c46833690" target="_blank">BobSherunkle: mhd: The trial went on almost as long as that note in Parisienne Walkways.


nice

seconded

 
cabritosaurio 2008-12-05 06:51:08 AM  
fark

 
Great_Milenko 2008-12-05 09:59:47 AM  
cabritosaurio: fark

yes, this website is called fark.

Any more amazing insights to share, Kreskin?

 
Satanic_Hamster 2008-12-08 10:11:19 PM  
Very good album. Have always enjoyed Gary Moore.

 
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