We’re just about recovering from the Blurred Lines debacle but now another chart-topper has been hit by plagiarism claims.
An Australian music website has highlighted the similarities between a track by rock band Australian Crawl and Guns N’ Roses’ Sweet Child O’ Mine.
Their 1981 song Unpublished Critics was released years before the Guns N’ Roses hit and is said to have “the same chugging chord progression, a similarly-sweeping lead break, the verse melody, and the elongated one-syllable vocal in the chorus”.
The album on which Unpublished Critics appeared hit the number spot in Australia so it’s not out of the realm of possibility that it inspired Sweet Child O’ Mine but it seems that there’s no indication of a legal battle brewing, as Australian Crawl bandmember James Reyne has acknowledged the similarities in the past and even covered Guns And Roses on stage.
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