McCartney Times

Theft and plagiarism in music are far from being recent. It seemed as though Ed Sheeran blatantly stole from Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ for his song ‘Thinking Out Loud’, and yet he won the case against the soul singer’s representatives in a lengthy lawsuit. Both Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood hold songwriting credits and were set to earn a chunk of the royalties from Radiohead’s ‘Creep’ after they judged its verses to be lifted from their hit ‘The Air That I Breathe’ that was famously performed by The Hollies.While Radiohead came back and admitted that they took more than a few liberties from the original composition, causing Hammond and Hazlewood to only take a fraction of their earnings, others remain staunch in their position that they wrote a song when, in fact, they pilfered it from another artist.

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Source: When Frank Zappa accused John Lennon of stealing