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You Can't Catch Me vs Come Together (just slower version)
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  • HA only John was a huge fan of Chuck Berry. He was influenced, he didnt steal, he gives props as far as saying Berry influenced him as a young kid.

  • Classical composers have done the same thing. Berry was great and Lennon was greater.

  • It's more 'influence',than stealing,anyway that's rock n roll

  • Plagiarizism is natural to history. All through history people borrow something from somebody else to create something else. That also applies to music. George got sued for stealing which was bs.

  • bueno y si se la robo o no ... que chingados?? los dos son dioses del RnR!!! asi que no esten cn sus mamadassss!!

  • Dude. Everyone stole from Berry, and Berry stole from Muddy and Son House and Robert Johnson, and Willie Dixon, and life goes on. get real.

  • Yeah, John Lennon steals from Chuck Berry and Chuck Berry steals from T-Bone Walker. So what? Cant we just be thankful for the great music of the world? Isnt music supposed to enrich our lives, and unite people? Why do some people feel the need to divide people? There are true injustices happening in this world right now in the present day, and we waste our energy on nitpicking about MUSIC?

  • @subg88 Thanks, that was very informative

  • @magiorey

    Berry didn't sue him, the publisher who owned Berry's music sued Lennon. The publishers are the ones who really stole from these guys.

    Lennon was actually guilty of blatant theft when he renamed King Kong by Frank Zappa and called it a Lennon/Ono composition "Jamrag". Zappa's band was even playing it! I think Lennon was just clueless in this case, thinking it was improv he could get away with claiming as his own when it was in fact an actual composition, but still very shady.

  • Chucks guitar licks were mostly lifted from the playing of his pianist Johnnie Johnstone.

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