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...years later, former Beatle George Harrison was nicked for $400,000 when a judge ruled that the 1970 number My Sweet Lord ("Hare Krishna") closely resembled the Chiffons' 1963 single He's So Fine ("Doo lang, doo lang, doo lang"). And in 1983 a Chicago jury ruled that the Bee Gees' How Deep Is Your Love (1977) was a little too deeply influenced by a 1975 ditty called Let It End, by Ronald Selle...
Intentional homage, subconscious emulation or calculated rip-off? For Selle's suit against the Bee Gees, four bars of the two scores were blown up to display a suspiciously exact correspondence of notes; on the witness stand, even Bee Gee Maurice Gibb couldn't tell the two songs apart. The similarities between Herman's song and David's consisted of an identical series of ten intervals. And My Sweet Lord really does sound very much like He's So Fine, in melody and rhythm...
...rich get richer and the poor serve lunch. Each day the sunrise set emerges from its Manhattan high-rises, takes a limo to the office and sits down to run the computer age. At the same hour, folks come in from Brooklyn or Queens to play the worker-bee roles of secretaries, cab drivers, souvlaki vendors and cops. After work they return home in underground cattle cars. The subway straps might be handcuffs...
Crom's appeal came particularly from his use of the piano, students who attended the show said. Students said they found his three renditions of "Mary Had a Little Lamb"--in the imitative styles of Stephen Sondheim, the Bee Gees and Bruce Springsteen--particularly entertaining...
After three acrimonious years, Republican Presidential Hopeful Paul Laxalt and the McClatchy Newspapers last week finally settled the lawsuits each had brought against the other. So who won? While Laxalt dropped his $250 million claim that the McClatchy-owned Sacramento Bee libeled him in a 1983 story about a Carson City casino-hotel his family once owned, the former Nevada Senator declared that pretrial investigations found no evidence of illegal skimming. And while Bee President-Editor C.K. McClatchy dropped a $6 million countersuit, he maintained that his paper had never reported there had been skimming -- only that IRS agents suspected...