The melody line –which is completely sublime, in both the Coldplay and Satriani instances –begins on a C#, the major 7 of the D chord. It repeats this progression throughout the song, over a steady four beats-per-measure rhythm that is presented almost like a march. The song begins on a D major 7 chord, proceeds to an E, then to the tonic, or “home chord,” A, and finally to the relative minor chord in the key, F# minor.
#VIVA LA VIDA COLDPLAY STOLEN SERIES#
Did Satriani rip off Enanitos Verdes, who has almost the exact same guitar solo in their 2002 song “Frances Limon”? Did that band borrow from John the Whistler’s song “I’m in Love,” released in 2000? Did he in turn get it from Babik Reihardt’s “Histoire Simple”? Internet conspiracy theorists have traced the melody back to a 1973 Cat Stevens song and list about 10 different songs that use it.Ĭoldplay’s “Viva la Vida” relies on a series of chords repeated as a mantra. Did Creaky Boards listen to Satriani’s album, too?īut wait. Just weeks after Coldplay’s album was released, an indie band named Creaky Boards claimed that not only does Coldplay’s song sound like their 2007 song “The Songs I Didn’t Write,” but that Coldplay’s Chris Martin was in the audience of one of their concerts. Who wrote it first?Ī question that needs to be answered as well is: Who wrote the song first? This whole thing appears to be a matter of complete coincidence,” notes Jeff Miers of the Buffalo News. “It is doubtful that Coldplay, whose members are avowed disciples of U2 and Radiohead and whose music has about as much in common with Satriani’s guitar workouts as Anton Webern’s does with Miley Cyrus, listened to the guitarist for inspiration. Let’s face it: Satriani, aside from a few thousand guitar aficionados who proclaim him the greatest guitar player ever, is not the most well-known artist. The key to the case will be whether the band even heard Satriani’s song. “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’,” he told MusicRadar last month. The melody of his 2004 song “If I Could Fly” does sound similar to Coldplay’s title cut from their 2008 album Viva La Vida. That’s what guitarist Joe Satriani is claiming in a lawsuit filed against the British band.
I’ve been a little hard on Coldplay lately, trashing their latest album and calling them - gasp! - boring. But can I kick them while they’re down? Is the band guilty of plagiarism?
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