John Lennon為何因Come Together這一首歌被告?
他被告的原因是因為剽竊Chuck Berry的歌。
Chuck Berry在這一首“You Can’t Catch Me”即興重複彈奏搖滾吉它，在“Come Together”歌中Lennon用較慢一點節奏仿裝，但歌詞卻惹了麻煩。
“Come Together“歌詞裡的“Here come old
Flattop he come groovin’ up slowly….”與“You Can’t
Catch Me“歌詞裡的“Here come a flattop, he was movin’ up
with me……”太接近了。
事實上Paul McCartney曾說過，在錄音的時候他感覺有一點用到Chuck Berry的歌詞，他和製作人George Martin 有一點抗拒，但是John Lennon沒有拿掉的意思，所以就那樣錄了。
四年後Chuck Berry作品持有者Morris Levy對Lennon竊用歌詞提起訴訟，他們後來庭外和解，John Lennon答應錄三首Levy擁有的歌給他，雖然和解內容有一點爭辯，但最後達成協議，John錄了“Ya Ya”、“You Can’t
Catch Me”二首歌並上市發行，還準備推出“Angel Baby”，可是後來沒有成事，因為John Lennon遇刺身亡。
雖然有些法律糾紛，但你必須承認“Come Together”如果沒有那一句開場白就不一樣了
The Beatles 「批頭合唱團」的“Come
Together”於1969年11月18日和“Something”一起推出(小唱片正反面)，都獲得Billboard Hot
100排行榜冠軍，“Come Together”也是滾石雜誌500大歌曲榜第205名的名曲。
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45cYwDMibGo
Come Together
The Beatles
Songwriters: Lennon John Winston /
Mccartney Paul James
Here come old flat top
He come grooving up slowly
He got joo joo eyeball
He one holy roller
He got hair down to his knee
Got to be a joker he just do what he please
He wear no shoe shine
He got toe jam football
He got monkey finger
He shoot Coca-Cola
He say I know you, you know me
One thing I can tell you is you got to be
free
Come together, right now, over me
He bag production
He got walrus gumboot
He got Ono sideboard
He one spinal cracker
He got feet down below his knee
Hold you in his armchair you can feel his
disease
Come together, right now, over me
He roller coaster
He got early warning
He got muddy water
He one mojo filter
He say, "one and one and one is
three"
Got to be good looking 'cause he's so hard
to see
Come together, right now, over me
Oh
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Oh
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
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