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Satriani vs Coldplay

Guitarist Joe Satriani is suing Coldplay for allegedly plagiarizing the chord progression and melody of his 2004 instrumental “If I Could Fly” for their recent hit “Viva La Vida”. Satriani is seeking to receive all royalties generated by the Coldplay song.

Satriani vs Coldplay

What do you think?

This entry was posted by Kyle S on Thursday, December 11th, 2008 at 3:20 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Satriani vs Coldplay”

  1. lee Says:
    December 26th, 2008 at 10:21 pm

    i think Satriani has a good case as does Ben Hardt!

  2. dan Says:
    July 10th, 2009 at 10:53 pm

    If i recall there are 2 other people out there claiming the wrote the song. At least one thing can sure, i don’t think coldplay came up with it.

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