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Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were hit with a copyright lawsuit alleging that their 2020 single, “Living in a Ghost Town,” makes exercise of subject topic from two tiny-known songs by one other artist.
The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are being sued for allegations of copyright infringement over their 2020 tune, “Living in a Ghost Town,” the principle original tune from the rock legends in virtually about ten years. The lawsuit, filed in Current Orleans federal court docket by songwriter Sergio Garcia Fernandez, claims that Jagger and Richards “misappropriated” ingredients from two of his songs.
Fernandez, whose stage title is Angelslang, says within the lawsuit that he gave a demo CD to “an instantaneous member of the family” of Jagger and that “recognizable and key steady ingredients” from two of his songs, “So Sorry” from 2006, and “Seed of God” from 2007, appear in The Rolling Stones’ “Living in a Ghost Town,” released in 2020.
“The instantaneous member of the family … confirmed receipt … to the plaintiff through electronic mail, and expressed that the musical works of the plaintiff and its vogue became as soon as a sound The Rolling Stones shall be within the usage of,” wrote Fernandez’s attorneys, though public filings didn’t encompass a replica of the electronic mail from Jagger’s relative.
“Living in a Ghost Town” became as soon as released at the tip of the COVID-19 shutdowns in April 2020. It became as soon as the principle entirely original subject topic released by The Rolling Stones since 2012, reaching Number 3 on the Billboard Hot Rock & Different Songs chart in May perhaps perhaps 2020.
Nonetheless Fernandez’s lawsuit alleges that the tune became as soon as created the usage of key ingredients of his songs, which he didn’t authorize and for which Jagger and Richards didn’t pay him, at the side of the “vocal melodies, the chord progressions, the drum beat patterns, the harmonica ingredients, the electrical bass line ingredients, the tempos, and other key signatures” from “So Sorry,” and the “harmonic and chord progression and melody from “Seed of God.”