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Post subject: Re: Jimmy Page
PostPosted: Sat May 26, 2012 10:09 am
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All artists steal here and there and don't give credit. Even Frank Zappa. Or, dare I say it .....

"Lady Madonna" by The Beatles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfthrizXKOM

"Bad Penny Blues" by Humphrey Lyttleton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY1O8YYjY2A

Inspiration

McCartney recalled in 1994, "'Lady Madonna' was me sitting down at the piano trying to write a bluesy boogie-woogie thing ... It reminded me of Fats Domino for some reason, so I started singing a Fats Domino impression. It took my voice to a very odd place." Domino himself covered the song later in 1968 and it became a US Hot 100 hit (peaking at exactly #100). The song, and in particular the introduction, are similar to Humphrey Lyttelton's "Bad Penny Blues" from 1956.

John Lennon helped write the lyrics, which give an account of an overworked, exhausted (possibly single) mother, facing a new problem each day of the week. The lyrics miss Saturday and in a 1992 interview, McCartney, who only realised the omission many years later, half-jokingly suggested that, given the difficulties of the other six days, the woman in the song likely went out and had a good time that night.

"I Feel Fine" by The Beatles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlpMs_R3P6U

"Watch Your Step" by Bobby Parker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvtabNAb_wE

Origin

Lennon wrote the guitar riff while in the studio recording "Eight Days a Week". "I wrote 'I Feel Fine' around that riff going on in the background", he recalled. "I told them I'd write a song specially for the riff. So they said, 'Yes. You go away and do that', knowing that we'd almost finished the album Beatles for Sale. Anyway, going into the studio one morning, I said to Ringo, 'I've written this song but it's lousy'. But we tried it, complete with riff, and it sounded like an A side, so we decided to release it just like that."


Zappa did more parodies of other people work. I can't recall him stealing other peoples work and slapping his name on it. There weren't too many people doing the stuff he did. Completely different situation. George did too with "My Sweet Lord", that was pretty blatant, and yes I'm a huge Harrison fan and always have been.

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