Peter Van Wood, a guitarist of 'Carosone' group, with a solo career in the last years of activity, yesterday accused Coldplay of plagarism. According to the old guitarist (80 years), 'Clocks' is copied from his song 'Caviar And Champagne' of 1982.

Wan Wood, popular in Italy for several television appareances as oroscope expert, want an indemnity of 1 million of euros for the 'damage'.

 

Next news on the focus on Coldplayzone.it

*searches for the song*

...Are you fucking kidding me?

...i find that absolutely ridiculous!

if anyone knows how i can listen to this song, can they please tell me?

No, it's a real news...

I don't believe it! Where did you get that news? :o And has anyone here found "Caviar and Champagne"?

I listened that track...on a national program dedicated to this event, here in Italy...i don't know...there's something similar, but i don't think it's a plagarism...anyway, we'll wait the response of Coldplay...

i hope is not true :\

Mmmmm, sounds like he's either out for a bit of cash or, more likely, a bit of publicity. He knows if he makes that kind of statement it will get in the press...

 

What I think is odd is that if he really thought the boys had plagarised his song then why wait for YEARS to get upset by it? What made him wake up randomly one morning and decide they ripped him off?! :confused: It's not like the song wasn't huge and played everywhere - they've been touring it for at least five years - so I'm sorry but I really doubt he only just heard it for the first time!

 

I haven't heard this guy's song but there is a BIG difference between plagarism and sounding a little bit like another song...

Can someone upload the song..?

I'd like to listen to it. so then i can give my opinion..

Thanks in advance! :)

http://tv.repubblica.it/home_page.php?playmode=player&cont_id=13588

 

What an idiot.

Oh dear. If this is what counts as plagarism then every song in the history of ever was a blatant rip-off!

It's more amusing than anything. Dunna duh dunna duh da da da...lol

http://tv.repubblica.it/home_page.php?playmode=player&cont_id=13588

 

What an idiot.

 

Are you kidding me?! hahahaha that's hilarious!:lol::laugh3::lol:

I'm yet to find any official news on this :confused:

In iTaly the news was reported on the main tvs, and on every internet site about news (ansa.it, repubblica.it, yahoo.it, rockol.it and so on)...

Anyway, i don't know if Coldplay were informed of that...in a poll yesterday in Italy, 60% of people voted 'yes, is a plagiarism', only 40 voted 'no, it's not'...

That's absurd...there's hardly any resemblence.

Besides, Coldplay are Coldplay, they'll do as they please.

What... the fuck?

 

Was this guy really bored one day?

http://tv.repubblica.it/home_page.php?playmode=player&cont_id=13588

 

What an idiot.

 

I agree! Well the melody might be a bit similar, but I would never say it's a plagiarism! For me it seems that someone only wants to get a bit more money. :dozey:

 

By the way, TG2 is the evening news show of RaiDue, isn't it? So the story seems to be a big thing in Italy... :confused:

such a rush.....

idiot

Murder

 

.. oh that idiot. Sorry.

umm...yeah, lets just see what Coldplay say. The more I listen to the two, the more they sound further and further away from one another. Bet this man has been looking for a "similar" song for around 20 years seeing the price he demands!

 

Heres another link: http://www.tgcom.mediaset.it/spettacolo/articoli/articolo384133.shtml

 

needs translation though, This is what a free translation states: "Former guitarist Carosone, solo singer, horoscopes, Peter Van Wood made headlines for a record compensation that asks the band Coldplay: Chris Martin & Co.. According to the Dutch musician, they have copied their famous "Clocks" from "Caviar and Champagne", a piece that Van Wood wrote in 1982 with a Total demand one million euros. (for copyright)

 

"Clocks", one of the major successes of Coldplay, which has sold millions of copies worldwide since its release in 2002. Peter Van Wood, guitarist class thinker 1927, landed in Italy in the late fifties entering the trio of Renato Carosone (with drummer Di Giacomo on drums). Popular became "Butta the key", a song in which he addressed singing to a woman who did not want him involved in the house and, with the guitar, playing her answers. In the late Sixties music saw him another passion, one for astrology, writing columns and horoscopes in the newspapers most popular at the time. Then the recent success thanks to participation in "Those that football" with Fabio Fazio and Marino Bartoletti." I am sorry if it doesnt make a lot of sense.

i think if coldplay really did it, they will not shame to tell their fans. because they also told out they using someone's iff in Speed of Sound when they played in Storyteller...i think this guys just too boring