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Chuck Berry: You Can't Catch Me (1956)
John Lennon was sued in 1969 by the publisher of the 1956 Chuck Berry song "You Can't Catch Me" claiming that he infringed on that copyright when writing his Beatles song "Come Together" in 1969. Lennon settled out of court.
The songs share a similar blues melody and structure, although the Chuck Berry-written song has a more upbeat tempo. And Lennon even used a line directly from Berry's song, which was about driving a fast car, "Here come a flat-top / He was movin' up with me," changing it only slightly and opening his song with, "Here come ol' flat-top / He come groovin' up slowly." https://boingboing.net/2023/05/23/w...-chuck-berry-song-to-write-come-together.html
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Johnny Guitar Watson - Space Guitar (1954)
Watson's show was a spectacle from the get go. His aggressive pick-less guitar method and raucous feedback and reverb-laden tone, an attire that would put The Mack to shame combined with a cartoonish personality to make him a captivating and somewhat polarizing figure in music for decades. His earliest solo successes came in 1954 with the record Space Guitar, which was as groundbreaking a release from a guitarist in that time as Are You Experienced was just thirteen years later. In fact, one of the most menacing aspects of out-living a musician who emulates your style and so many others as well as Jimi did, was addressing the obvious comparisons without the other there to reciprocate the sentiment. In fact, Watson had this to say about Hendrix's stage performance: "I used to play the guitar standing on my hands. I had a 150-foot cord and I could get on top of the auditorium – those things Jimi Hendrix was doing, I started that shit." https://www.okayplayer.com/news/throwback-thursday-johnny-guitar-watson-evolution-of-funk-god.html
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