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Did The Rolling Stones plagiarize? [no]

Did The Rolling Stones plagiarize? [no]

Another week, another spurious music copyright infringement lawsuit. The Rolling Stones are being sued by an artist called Angelslang (aka Sergio Fernandez) for alleged similarities between the former's 2020 song Living In A Ghost Town, and plaintiff's earlier songs...

Eurovision live musicology blog 2022

Kalush Orchestra (Ukraine), who won the 2022 contest with their song 'Stefania'. A better result than last year with the predictions - I got a home run on the top 3, and only missed one outsider – Serbia, for which I guess I misread the lyric theme. Looks like Europe...

Eurovision live blog 2022 – get ready!

As regular readers will know, I have been live-blogging the ESC since 2011, and in 2020 undertook a larger-scale song analysis for Netflix, where we looked at the meta-characteristics of 259 finalists 2010-2019. To get you in the zone (I'm typing this on Thursday...

Joe Bennett interview (BBC): Ed Sheeran court case

Joe Bennett interview (BBC): Ed Sheeran court case

Watch on YouTube Interview with Professor Joe Bennett (Forensic Musicologist / Berklee College Of Music) discussing the Ed Sheeran "Shape Of You" verdict in the UK high court. Interview date: April 10, 2022 BBC World Service: World Business Report Interviewer: David...

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