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.

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.

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226. Doxology Who?

Posted at 10:32PM on Apr 8th 2008 by Caitlin

227. does it really matter? point is her rocked it waaayyy better then them... and at the end of the shortened version, when he says, i look at all the lonley people. the second one where he hits the notes. those guys suck balls. nothing can come close to what he did. he is the next idol. all there is to say! plus. his home town is like 10 min. from me. ha. that band sucks balls!

Posted at 11:30PM on Apr 15th 2008 by Gavin

228. Sorry to say that GodHead did a similar version before Doxology and you don't hear them complain!

Posted at 4:02AM on Apr 17th 2008 by jen

229. David has been up front from the start!!! The only one that he has admitted to be HIS OWN original version of
the song was Dolly's "Little Sparrow". He has mentioned that he has gone on the internet and picked a version of
each of his songs and tweeked a bit to his liking. So...if it is on the internet, it is open game!!!

Posted at 10:00PM on Apr 19th 2008 by Cathy

230. Its/s time for Cook to come clean with his copy cat version of Eleanor Rigby. The judges gave him great praise for his own version of this song. The public votes for originality and what the judges say. And what he did was deceaving to the judges and the public, let alone not giving the group Doxology the credit.

Posted at 1:28PM on Apr 22nd 2008 by whammy

231. Since it became known today, that David Cook is gay, no one will care about this little Doxology claim, mark my words. Cooks boyfriend coming forward will be the latest in the news and everything else forgotten.

Posted at 2:56AM on May 5th 2008 by chudpucker

232. Since it became known today, that David Cook is gay, no one will care about this little Doxology claim, mark my words. Cooks boyfriend coming forward will be the latest in the news and everything else forgotten.

Posted at 8:43AM on May 5th 2008 by chudpucker

233. Since it became known today, that David Cook is gay, no one will care about this little Doxology claim, mark my words. Cooks boyfriend coming forward will be the latest in the news and everything else forgotten

Posted at 9:16AM on May 5th 2008 by chudpucker

234. Does it matter? David sounds a whole lot better! He did credit someone for the version a couple weeks ago.

Posted at 1:48PM on Jul 7th 2008 by Lauren4824

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