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gwaydms t1_jdtqdsu wrote

Reply to comment by Roman_____Holiday in TIL Australian band, Men At Work were sued over their song "Down Under" for similarities to an Australian nursery rhyme "Kookaburra". by El-Hairy

John Lennon said as much when talking about some of ELO's songs (particularly Mister Kingdom, which borrows a few bars from Across the Universe). He grinned and said something like "Let's not talk about all the stuff I've nicked."

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pohatu771 t1_jdtqzhl wrote

He had very famously been sued (and lost) over Come Together. Part of the settlement was recording some Chuck Berry songs, which ultimately became the Rock and Roll album.

(I’m not sure how he was the one in court when Come Together, like everything else, was a Lennon-McCartney credit.)

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pineappleshnapps t1_jdun34o wrote

They credited both, even when one wrote the song from what I remember. Maybe he knew more about how it was written.

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