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For lyrics, Captain’s claim that he lifted them directly from the speech bubbles from a Bunty’s comic book series about a dancer character ... punctuated by jazzy piano atop more bass chords, the beat ...

Someone took all of the rock 'n' roll out of The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and it's a musical travesty.

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The Broadway hit musical traces Carole King's life and career from her start as a 16-year-old songwriter to the beginnings of ...

Accidental or deliberate? Discussing John Lennon's plagiarism of Frank Zappa and whether the two icons actually agreed on the ...

Music industry legend Quincy Jones died at home in Los Angeles on Nov. 3, at the age of 91. The widely acclaimed songwriter, ...

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Nobody else will ever fucking understand. Taylor comes back to these “All Too Well” piano chords sometimes, when she’s telling a sad story, like “Cornelia Street” or “Champagne ...

Ihor Tsymbrovsky’s ethereal falsetto in “Beatrice” (1996), set against a piano both campy and plodding ... some selections and gaps. The two-chord jam of “Yarn” (1992), despite its ...