Posted by admin on 29 Jul 2010 | Tagged as: news
Image by Getty Images via @daylife According to a report in Headliner Watch, actor Mel Gibson is in a legal dispute with his ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva. But this time it’s not about a crooked tooth or alimony, it’s about lyrics that he wrote with her. The Russian beauty Grigorieva recorded an album produced by Gibson [...]
Posted by admin on 01 May 2010 | Tagged as: news
Image via Wikipedia John Lennon’s handwritten lyrics to “A Day in the Life” are going up for auction in May, with estimates of $500,000 being floated. Not all lyrics do as well as expected at auction, but as investors currently look to place their bets in places outside currency and property, I’d think this one [...]
Posted by admin on 08 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: news, plagiarism
Amazon.com WidgetsOne of popular music’s most remarkable songs, “Dans le port d’Amsterdam” made famous by Jacques Brel, has now been linked to an old Irish song called “Since Greybeards Inform Us That Youth Will Decay” by T. Toms. In 1814-16, Beethoven (no less) was asked to transcribe 20 Irish songs (lieders) for the Scottish publisher [...]
Posted by admin on 05 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: news, plagiarism
The unpredictable nature of plagiarism cases was proved again when it was ruled that Men at Work would have to pay out between 40-60% of earnings from their anthemic comedy song, “Down Under”. The case was brought by the music company Larrikin, which bought the rights to the Australian scout song “Kookaburra Sits in the [...]
Posted by admin on 03 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: news
The perception of traditional Irish music is that it was all written in the Middle Ages. But that’s forgetting that many musicians write in traditional mode, creating new songs in a recognisable trad style. This is true of Cesaria Evora and indeed of the Stray Cats (jumping genres). This fact was underlined at the recent [...]
Posted by admin on 08 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: news
The British have this fixation with the n° 1 Christmas single that is quaint. Very often, a charity record gets the prized position (either that or Sir Cliff Richard). But for some time, X-Factor artists have been dominating the spot. So two fans of Rage Against the Machine are launching a viral campaign to reclaim [...]
Posted by admin on 12 Nov 2009 | Tagged as: news
Canada-based Serbian rapper Sin, featured on A-Lyric a few months back, has decided to use his real name Filip Filipi to coincide with the release of a new mixtape. “I feel the change is appropriate as I enter a more musically mature and genuine chapter of my career. I’m extremely satisfied and proud of the [...]
Posted by admin on 02 Nov 2009 | Tagged as: meanings, news
Amazon.co.uk WidgetsI just noticed that Dana Winner’s new album, “Between Now and Tomorrow”, has been released featuring “If You Want to Know Me” with lyrics by me. The album features English versions of a similar album released in the Benelux, and was recorded largely for release in her “second home”, South Africa. But this is [...]
Posted by admin on 21 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: news
Like many people, I would walk home from school singing daft theme tunes from television. The writer of two of these, the “Addams Family” theme and “Green Acres”, has just died in Los Angeles at the age of 93. Mizzy was the master of silly but catchy tunes, and was kept busy well into his [...]
Posted by admin on 14 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: gadgets, news
Image via Wikipedia As I reported here a while back, LyricWiki was recently served notice that it could no longer supply its lyrics to various applications. Rather than go the way of so many web-based initiatives, it is now being incorporated into Wikia and has negotiated a deal with Gracenote that will do two interesting [...]