A while back we ran the Blogs N Roses: "Songs That Sound Like Other Songs" Segments. Here are parts 1, 2, and 3. We should have put Joe Satriani's "If I Could Fly" and Coldplay's Viva La Vida on there.

Here is Coldplay ripping off Kraftwerk. Coldplay had to pay for this in royalties.



***UPDATE:***

Joe Satriani issued the following comment about the rip:

"The second I heard, I knew... I felt like a dagger went right through my heart. It hurt so much," Satriani said. "The second I heard it, I knew it was [my own] 'If I Could Fly'."

"Almost immediately, from the minute their song came out, my e-mail box flooded with people going, 'Have you heard this song by COLDPLAY? They ripped you off man,'" he said. "I mean, I couldn't tell you how many e-mails I received.

"Everybody noticed the similarities between the songs. It's pretty obvious. It's as simple as that — when you listen to a song and you say, 'Wow, that's a real rip-off.'"