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This blew my mind the other day. The amount of popular songs directly lifted from Pachelbel's Canon in D. Amazing when you hear them one after the other, and this is only a short list.
First, the original (written some time between 1680 and 1706);
Going on Keno's interesting facts thread - Pachelbel's Canon in D on 15:14 - Aug 5 by uefacup81
And then there's this:
And the shameless copy of the shameless copy:
Seemingly Puhdys had form for this sort of thing:
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there is a clip I cant find of billy Connolly talking to some blues musicians in the US about the relationship between Irish folk music, negro spirituals and blues in which he take an Irish tune and as he is playing it transposes it directly into a blues song
Going on Keno's interesting facts thread - Pachelbel's Canon in D on 09:28 - Aug 6 by Keno
there is a clip I cant find of billy Connolly talking to some blues musicians in the US about the relationship between Irish folk music, negro spirituals and blues in which he take an Irish tune and as he is playing it transposes it directly into a blues song
And of course that well known link between the Dr Who theme and Jacques Brel...
Just one small problem; sell their houses to who, Ben? Fcking Aquaman?