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Heuy Lewis "I want a new drug". Does this really sound like "ghostbusters"? Love both tracks (the only Heuy track I can play over and over. Sounds more raw then his othet stuff) but Ray didn't copy him THAT much did he for huey to go and sue him?
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I remember hearing "Ghostbusters" for the first time,and thinking "This sounds like "I Want A New Drug"...lol...it definitely has the same riff. | |
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DavidEye said: I remember hearing "Ghostbusters" for the first time,and thinking "This sounds like "I Want A New Drug"...lol...it definitely has the same riff.
I wasn't around when neither came out but ? I say the riff is similer. But not exactly the same. Did it go to court or did Ray just pay up straight away? | |
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thesexofit said: DavidEye said: I remember hearing "Ghostbusters" for the first time,and thinking "This sounds like "I Want A New Drug"...lol...it definitely has the same riff.
I wasn't around when neither came out but ? I say the riff is similer. But not exactly the same. Did it go to court or did Ray just pay up straight away? I think it went to court,or perhaps they settled out of court.I can't recall. | |
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DavidEye said: thesexofit said: I wasn't around when neither came out but ? I say the riff is similer. But not exactly the same. Did it go to court or did Ray just pay up straight away? I think it went to court,or perhaps they settled out of court.I can't recall. I like on the fade out of "ghostbusters". Ray says seomthing like "it works for girls too" on the fading adlib. Ray is a cheating fucker on his 1991 "love u like u are" album. Funny though. | |
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Parker was accused of plagiarising the melody from Huey Lewis & the News song "I Want A New Drug" for his 1984 #1 hit theme to Ghostbusters, released only 6 months after Lewis' hit reached #6 in the Billboard Hot 100.
The producers of Ghostbusters had approached Lewis to use his song in the film, but their request was turned down, which led them to ask Parker to write a song similar to "I Want A New Drug" as the theme. This ended with Lewis suing Parker, and the pair settled out of court in 1995. They returned to court once again in 2001, the tables turned this time as Parker now sued Lewis for breaching a confidentiality agreement forming part of their original out of court settlement which prohibited either side from speaking about it publicly. Lewis had revealed in a VH1 Behind The Music special that Parker had paid a financial settlement as part of the original agreement. Check it out ...Shiny Toy Guns R gonna blowup VERY soon and bring melody back to music..you heard it here 1st! http://www.myspacecomment...theone.mp3 | |
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so,the producers wanted to use "I Want A New Drug" as the theme song for a film about ghosts?  | |
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PLEASE. The songs are virtually identical. I remember when both tracks came out, and I heard the similarities instantly. | |
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DavidEye said: so,the producers wanted to use "I Want A New Drug" as the theme song for a film about ghosts?
 Could of changed the chorus to "i wanna find a ghost"?
I know Iam 1 syllable out but if u say it quick enough it fits. It sorta rolls off the tongue. What u reckon? | |
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