Another Musician Claims Coldplay Song is His Work
May 4th, 2009 by Guitar MX Admin
You may remember the story of Joe Satriani suing Coldplay for copyright infringement with their song “Viva La Vida”. The song bears a striking resemblance to Joe’s tune “If I Could Fly”. Well, someone else is claiming that Viva La Vida is their work. This time, it’s Cat Stevens, who now goes by the name Yusuf Islam. He is claiming that the song bears an uncanny resemblance to his song Foreigner Suite, which also predates the Satriani song. Stevens has not taken legal action yet.
So is there copying going on, and if so, who’s copying who? You can listen to the songs yourself and judge. The Coldplay part starts at 5:18, which a poster at MusicRadar mercifully pointed out.
You can hear the Coldplay song here, and the Satriani song here.
Well the chord sequence seems to be the same, but I don’t think you can call theft on a chord sequence, if you can there are loads of people that are in trouble.