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Green Day face lawsuit from quite-probably-deluded individual
Posted: 26 Oct '06, 12:17
Green Day are facing a lawsuit from a man who claims that he wrote all of their last album, American Idiot.
Thirty-year-old Paul McPike claims that he wrote the whole album while at college, while in his teens. In his lawsuit, it is claimed that McPike performed versions of the album's songs to friends, and that one colleague leaked the material to the successful pop-punkers.
Unsurprisingly, a district judge has not given the case permission to proceed, stating that McPike's accusations aren't backed up by enough evidence. Oh rly?
He's to report to said judge once further evidence has been collected. If there actually is any, obviously.
This is a silly story. A very silly story.
Paul McPike should stop moaning.
I wrote all of 'Hey Jude' whilst still in the womb, and you don't hear me complaining.
That Reminds Me
I wrote Ok Computer when I was on holiday on the Isle of Wight in 1992 - must get round to sorting that one out.
hahahahhaha
that has to be the most ridiculous thing I have ever read.
That man is silly.
I wrote the music to blister in the sun
sadly it had been released several years before, I just hadn't heard it.
well i wrote Nevermind
at the fair age of 3, so i win.
I can beat that
... I wrote all of "Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdog Flavored (sic) Water" just to project my hate upon this Earth.
i had a french teacher
who claimed that he wrote 'love shine a light' by Katrina and the waves. He reckons he sent it into the eurovision people and didn't hear anything back till he was watching it on the telly. No lie! he tried take them to court and everything.
it was agreat way to get out of french...Mr Kirwin how is the case going?
wow
if i wrote 'love shine a light', the last thing i'd want is for other people to know!
I read yesterday that Kurt Cobain
is now the richest dead celeb or someething.
I only wrote Nevermind for a laugh.
I gave away the rights to 'The Dark Side of the Moon'
cuz i didnt think it was all that. They said theyd give me royalties but they never got round to it.
Well I
wrote the white album after I'd listened to it. But it's in my handwriting so I get the copyright don't I? What a twat
Actually
i wrote this article during my GCSE German exam in 2001. i'm going to sue you, Mike!
jack whites new lot..
Have written a song which is identical to one I wrote. Very odd. Especially as it was in a very odd timing and even in the same key!
I doubt they copied it, but still...odd.
...
That probably means it was really obvious.
...
Why would you admit to this?
Get this!
Some band are just about to release a single that is identical to Oasis' classic, 'Don't Look Back In Anger'. No Shit! It's practically the same song.
Oh wait...
It's Oasis.
paul mcpike is
an american idiot. had to say it.
hope no one said it before me.
and i hope he's american.
he went to 'college'
so most likely
just imagine
he was telling the truth. he'd be fuming
owning up
Owning up to writing American Idiot isn't the sort of thing i'd do in public. Shut it McPike!
Owning up...
...to writing one of the best albums of 2004 and, perhaps more importantly, biggest selling albums, is something I'd do.
Didn't
Jake Burns write all of Green Days material? Do I win for the most obvious gag?
well as a matter of fact
i wrote all of sgt pepper's when i left uni. this was shortly before i enrolled in 'nam. we got ambushed by charlie near da nang, fought back but lost 60% of our flying penguins in the chaos.
now, i live in 'pleasent springs home for the mentally deluded'. they tell me next week we're going to vegas to meet george clooney.
well i recorded There There
and made Thom Yorke cry
LOL
@ this.
no he didnt
nooo, *I* wrote American Idiot!
anyone else?
green day
answer me this you cali surf-punk punk motherfuckers:
i lent you a jacuzzia foot spa back in '91. where the fuck is it you lallygagging wonder-wankers?
I share his pain
I spraypainted something witty on the shutter of the chippy once it'd closed forever when I stayed in one of Glasgows picturesque ghettos. It made it to the papers, go me, eh. Five years later I googled it out of interest to find an archived newspaper report about the street theatre which had been named after it and, get fucking this, an interview with a shellsuited illiterate (probably) local gangsta explaining why he'd sprayed it and where he got his ideas from
Where's the justice, eh.
out of interest
what did you write on it?
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