Sounds Like Teen Spirit: Stolen Melodies Ripped-off Riffs and the Secret History of Rock and Roll

Sounds Like Teen Spirit provides hundreds of pairings of songs that appear to have borrowed their melodies from earlier songs. Readers wil discover the music that influnced the songs of the Beatles Led Zeppelin Bob Dylan the Rolling Stones Bruce Springsteen and many more. Sounds Like Teen Spirit covers recent plagirism cases involveing Robin Thicke Sam Smith and Coldplay as well as famous cases such as when George Harrison was sued over his song My Sweet Lord by the publishers of the Chiffons Hes So FineReaders will never hear the familiar songs in quite the same way after reading Sounds Like Teen Spirit. For example the Doors Hello I Love You has the same melody and the Kinks All Day and All Night and the riff that powered Nirvanas Smells Like Teen Spirit is a variation on the guitar riff from Bostons More than a Feeling.Sounds Like Teen Spirit explains that creative artists are influenced by a wide and often surprising range of sources. For instance John Lennons song Imagine may have have been influenced by a novelty song that his father recorded to cash in on his sons fame and Bob Marleys Buffalo Soldier contains the melody from The Banana Splits Theme!