Did David Cook Rip-Off "Eleanor Rigby"?

Posted Mar 12th 2008 2:22PM by TMZ Staff

David Cook was on fire with his rendition of the Beatles classic "Eleanor Rigby" on "Idol" last night -- but a Seattle band claims he swiped the arrangement from them.


The band DOXOLOGY recorded their version of the track a year and a half ago, putting it up on iTunes and on the band's MySpace page. The band's manager tells TMZ the song is what they're best known for and have played it at nearly 200 shows.

Click to hear!The manager says the band has no intention of suing, but they're trying to get in touch with the show -- they want some props.

"Idol" tells TMZ the contestants pick their song and present their ideas for the arrangement to the show's musical department and work with them on it.

Welcome to Hollywood.



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1. He rocked the house!!

Posted at 2:27PM on Mar 12th 2008 by #1defleppardfan

2. Who cares? They ripped it from The Beatles.

Posted at 2:32PM on Mar 12th 2008 by CJ

3. Wait a minute, both of those songs sound an awful lot like a Beatles tune. I can't think of the name of it, but I think they both ripped it off from them.

Posted at 2:32PM on Mar 12th 2008 by Phil

4. Exactly Phil.

Posted at 2:33PM on Mar 12th 2008 by Jenna

5. Who cares? Chris Daughtry did the same things on the show with Live;s version of Walk The Line. He only gave props to it on the results show because so many people called him on it.....

Posted at 2:34PM on Mar 12th 2008 by Kerrie

6. Oh, goody! More Idol crap!

Posted at 2:34PM on Mar 12th 2008 by LWood

7. if you're best known for covering a Beatles song and not one of your own that doens't say much!

Posted at 2:36PM on Mar 12th 2008 by mittelfrueh

8. bad porn is better than this AI dreck

Posted at 2:37PM on Mar 12th 2008 by david johnson

9. Its not even their song to begin with! How can they be angry?

Posted at 2:38PM on Mar 12th 2008 by Chase

10. Cook also ripped off Me First and the Gimme Gimmes version of "Hello," the week before.

Posted at 2:40PM on Mar 12th 2008 by SantaMonica12

11. Screw these guys....its a cover tune. If you want to give real props give them to the Kings of the cover tunes............

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes www.gimmegimmes.com

They have been pumping out classic covers and show tunes for more than ten years

Posted at 2:43PM on Mar 12th 2008 by Boss

12. DOXOLOGY should be happy about the publicity and this TMZ article. This is the most publicity they're ever going to get.

Maybe they'll get lucky and use this to book better shows than the high school show they're looking forward to on their MySpace page.

Their original songs are crap, bad Maroon 5 ripoff band.

Their manager is smart for getting this publicity. Too bad they can't sue for an arrangement of somebody else's song eh?

Posted at 2:46PM on Mar 12th 2008 by Gunner

13. He is much better than that gay guy that forgot the words.
He should win and they should vote gay boy off tonight.

Posted at 2:46PM on Mar 12th 2008 by Rock me gently, rock me slowly!

14. Godhead recorded a rocked out version of Eleanor Rigby a while back. It's not new. People need to get over it.

Posted at 2:46PM on Mar 12th 2008 by nunya

15. SantaMonica, what are you smoking? It doesn't even sound close to Me First and Gimme Gimmes, which is a punk version. You have to be completely musically impaired and deaf to think they are even similar.

Furthermore, I dont think the version last night sounded anything like Doxology either. The stupid link here didn't work, but it's available on their web site and is a bit mediocre compared to Cook.

Posted at 2:51PM on Mar 12th 2008 by Fanito Bandito

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