The writer lives in Brazil, he’ll never find out’. Not that I’d stood in the studio and said, ‘Here, I know we’ll use that tune from Taj Mahal as the chorus. He later admitted: “I held my hand up straight away. Rod was challenged over his famous disco hit by several people including his old pal Elton John (watch the video below to see them both joking about it.īrazilian artist Jorge Ben sued Rod over the song, and agreed to give a percentage of the song’s proceeds to UNICEF. Songs: 'Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?' vs 'Taj Mahal' I know the motive behind writing the song in the first place and its effect far exceeded the legal hassle." "In fact it saved many a heroin addict's life. "I don't feel guilty or bad about it," he later said. The judge ruled that he was guilty of "subconscious plagiarism." He was initially ordered to pay $1.5m, but this was later lowered to $587,000. George claimed that he based the melody on the public-domain hymn 'Oh Happy Day', but admitted the similarity to 'He's So Fine'. In that time, The Chiffons even recorded their own version of 'My Sweet Lord'. Mack's publisher, Bright Tunes Music Corporation, filed a plagiarism lawsuit, but it didn't go to trial until 1976. George scored the first solo number one for a Beatle in 1970 with this song, but Chiffons songwriter Ronnie Mack noticed the similarities with the classic soul number.
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