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Re: Robin Thicke and Pharrell

Moving on from the hand wringing, I'm curious if there will be an appeal.....

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Re: Robin Thicke and Pharrell

Sydney - you bet ya.....
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Re: Robin Thicke and Pharrell

On 3/11/2015 evelomaddict said:
On 3/11/2015 MickD said: Eve - oh that is right....definitely a case there....

definitely. the original song is beautiful and i wouldn't have ever heard it had there not been a lawsuit. i never heard or spirit before.

I Got A Line On You was a more popular song for them at the time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeQ9kw818NQ

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Re: Robin Thicke and Pharrell

They should appeal. The two songs have bits in common but so do all songs.
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Re: Robin Thicke and Pharrell

Led zepplin so plagarized Spirit. The spirit song sounds exactly like Stairway....same chords.
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Re: Robin Thicke and Pharrell

Lory - the jury listened to numerous song bars (I dont know how many) both the Pharrell/Thicke and Gaye - side by side and found all but two bars matched.....
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.... ~ S & G
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Re: Robin Thicke and Pharrell

On 3/12/2015 lory said: They should appeal. The two songs have bits in common but so do all songs.


I agree.

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Re: Robin Thicke and Pharrell

On 3/12/2015 scotttie said:
On 3/12/2015 lory said: They should appeal. The two songs have bits in common but so do all songs.


I agree.

double agree............................raven

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Re: Robin Thicke and Pharrell

On 3/12/2015 MickD said: Lory - the jury listened to numerous song bars (I dont know how many) both the Pharrell/Thicke and Gaye - side by side and found all but two bars matched.....
Thats interesting. I would love to see/hear exactly which parts were compared. I do hear the similarities in the cow bells. Now if you compare Taurus/stairway I can pick out exactly the couple of notes which are different.
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I should have said the bars in question....apparently they did a very thorough job and took the case seriously.....
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