Did Pink Floyd copy 'Lady Magnolia' for Darkside of the Moon?
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Awhile back I heard a song by Piero Umiliani on the radio, which I kind of liked, so I looked up his music on youtube and one of the songs I came accross was Lady Magnolia. I couldn't help, but notice the striking similarity of the song to Any Colour You'd Like as well as in songs like Breathe off Dark Side of the Moon. The Lady Magnolia theme actually pretty much permeates the baseline of the entire album.
What do you think? Did Pink Floyd copy Lady Magnolia for Darkside of the Moon? Did they hear the song stoned one day and not being able to get it of their heads, did it come out during a jam session, all slowed down and spacy to make one of the greatest psychedelic albums ever?
2 comments:
It does resemble it quite a bit. It also sounds like Down By The River by CSN&Y.
There could have been a settled suit for all we know that was kept quiet.
Consciously or subconsciously it's got to happen all the time.
"Consciously or subconsciously it's got to happen all the time."
Exactly. To tell you the truth I don't believe in an original artist. Every artist copies other artists. That's why we get genres that people hover around for about 50 years, everyone's just doing their own little take on a style already set by someone who copied someone else :)
Not that that's a bad thing, but sometimes it does become a bad thing. Take that contemporary rock radio station where everyone's doing the same tone dead, monotone nickelback cover.
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