Classical Lifts

[ChunkyMonkey]

I wonder how many modern songs have been lifted from classical recordings..for instance Eric Carmen swiped his tune from Rachmaninovs Symphony No:2 Any More?

[answerbok]

Lover's Concerto - Toys, Joybringer - Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Lady Lynda - Beach Boys, soz, i don't know all their classical titles, Joybringer though was based on Jupiter by Holst

[Kit]

"Lover's concerto" is Bach's Minuet in G, the first thing I ever learnt to play on the piano. "Whiter shade of pale" sounds a lot like Bach's Air on a G String, Lady Linda was Bach's "Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring", Billy Joel's "This Night " (from An Innocent Man) is based on the 2nd movement of Beethoven's Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13 ("Pathetique.") The Farm based "All Together Now" on Pachelbel's Canon in D in 1990. (This was also apparently the the inspiration for Kylie Minogue's "I should be so lucky", but darned if I can detect it.)

[answerbok]

thx Kit :-)

[mikewith]

The Beach Boys' "Lady Lynda" does indeed have an instrumental break lifted from "Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desire" by JS Bach. (Didn't do any good - the Beach Boy who wrote it divorced Lynda a few years later). The Byrds used the same tune for the bridge of "She Don't Care About Time".

[gilf]

"Could it be Magic" by Barry Manilow and covered by Take that is taken from a classical tune, cant remember what it is at the moment.

[AllYourBase]

CU When U get there by Coolio is based on a classical piece, but I've no idea what it is. However it seems to be played at just about every wedding I am ever at!

[Kit]

"Could it be magic" - Chopin's Prelude in C Minor (Opus 28, No. 20). Coolio: think that's Pachalbel's Canon again.