14 songs that "rip off" classical music
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A lot of them are obvious (the "Lover's Concerto", but some, like Eric Carmen's "All By Myself" were not apparent to me.
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I don't know that I buy that using the same chord progression as Canon's is copying. It's pleasing to the ear, at least when it's not a wedding. Somehow I doubt much of anyone sat down with it and said 'ok, we're going to repurpose this'. Except maybe Procul Harem's pretty direct copy of Air on a G string for Whiter Shade of Pale.
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Pinching chord progressions from musical standards is an old jazz trick to avoid paying copyright. If the Gershwins had found a way to copyright the changes to I Got Rhythm they would have been gazillionaires.
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