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The Rolling Stones are getting slapped with a copyright infringement suit.
Songwriter Sergio Garcia Fernandez, who performs under the moniker Angelslang, alleges that The World’s Greatest Rock And Roll Band‘s recent tune ripped off “many of the recognisable and key protected elements” of a couple of his songs, namely So Sorry and Seed Of God.
Fernandez says he gave a CD of his music to one of Mick Jagger’s “immediate family members”, and then elements of them showed up in the Stones’ 2020 song. In a media release, his lawyers say “The immediate family member … confirmed receipt … to the plaintiff via e-mail, and expressed that the musical works of the plaintiff and its style was a sound The Rolling Stones would be interested in using.”
Furthermore, the suit alleges that Living A Ghost Town swiped “vocal melodies, the chord progressions, the drum beat patterns, the harmonica parts, the electric bass line parts, the tempos, and other key signatures” from ‘So Sorry’, and the “harmonic and chord progression and melody” from ‘Seed Of God’.
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