British band Coldplay are fighting off claims that they ripped off a song by another group, after Brooklyn-based band Creaky Boards claimed that they borrowed the melody of one of their tracks - and they’ve put together a video comparing the two to prove it. Click ‘read more’ to check out the video.
In a post titled “God Damn Coldplay”, written by the Creaky Boards on their MySpace page on June 1, the band draw comparisons between the current Coldplay hit ‘Viva La Vida’ and their own composition, ‘The Songs I Didn’t Write.’
“I wrote a strikingly similar song over a year before the Coldplay song was released,” band-member Andrew says in a YouTube video, in which he also claims that the band thought they saw Chris Martin in the audience at one of their shows.
However, a spokesperson for the British chart-toppers has refuted the claims, saying that ‘Viva La Vida’ was written and demoed in March last year, and that Martin was in London at the time the band claims they saw him.
Watch the video comparing the two songs below.
Photo courtesy of Capitol.
