Update: JOE SATRIANI Discusses COLDPLAY Lawsuit
December 8, 2008, 15 years ago
In an exclusive interview with MusicRadar.com, JOE SATRIANI discusses his lawsuit against COLDPLAY, which claims the UK band's Grammy-nominated song 'Viva La Vida' uses one of his melodies.
The following is an excerpt from the interview conducted by Joe Bosso:
Speaking exclusively to MusicRadar on December 6th, Joe Satriani recalls the exact emotion he felt when he first heard Coldplay's 'Viva La Vida'.
"The second I heard, I knew...""I felt like a dagger went right through my heart. It hurt so much," Satriani says. "The second I heard it, I knew it was [my own] 'If I Could Fly'."
As it turned out, Satriani wasn't the only one who noticed the similarity between 'If I Could Fly' and 'Viva La Vida'.
"Almost immediately, from the minute their song came out, my e-mail box flooded with people going, 'Have you heard this song by Coldplay? They ripped you off man.' I mean, I couldn't tell you how many e-mails I received."Everybody noticed the similarities between the songs. It's pretty obvious. It's as simple as that - when you listen to a song and you say, 'Wow, that's a real rip-off.'"
Read the full interview at MusicRadar.com.
