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Guitarist: Coldplay Cold-Jacked My Song

Posted Dec 5th 2008 2:00PM by TMZ Staff

Some badass guitarist is suing Coldplay for allegedly ripping off his song -- and once you hear this guy's Cold-case, it's gonna blow your frickin' mind.

It's all over Coldplay's number one hit "Viva La Vida" -- Joe Satriani says "Viva" is way too similar to his 2004 instrumental, "If I Could Fly." Now, he's asking for "any and all profits" ... and given that "Vida" topped the chart in 36 countries, we could be talking about a lot of money.

Satriani has worked with everyone from Mick Jagger to Deep Purple.

A rep for Coldplay had no comment.

UPDATE: The lawsuit was settled outside of court -- the terms of the settlement have not been disclosed.

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1. Thieves!

Posted at 2:11PM on Dec 5th 2008 by scyren

2. Joe Satriani got ripped off. Shame on Coldplay.

Posted at 2:11PM on Dec 5th 2008 by Buster

3. Some guitar geek???? Don't you know who Joe Satriani is??? Who's running TMZ, 6th graders????

Posted at 2:12PM on Dec 5th 2008 by Dyna

4. sounds like every 80's song on earth. i don't want to hear it.

Posted at 2:13PM on Dec 5th 2008 by Nah

5. Melody is totally different to me. Not even close.

Posted at 2:15PM on Dec 5th 2008 by NRB

6. Now you have done it TMZ..Joe Satriani is no guitar geek. He is only one of the best guitarists to ever be on this planet.

Posted at 2:16PM on Dec 5th 2008 by Dale

7. Joe Satriani a GEEK??? TMZ get your act together...you people are clueless. Oh thats right you're into Fall Out Boy....

Posted at 2:16PM on Dec 5th 2008 by Eddie Van Halen

8. Do your homework TMZ!! Joe Satriani is hardly a "Geek"! One of the most well respected, "ORIGINAL" rock guitarists of all time...........Who are the real geeks......"pseudo-journalists"

Posted at 5:12PM on Dec 5th 2008 by Rich D

9. Coldplay is in some DEEP doody now - that is obviously jacked from Joe Satriani and anyone that can't hear it is tone deaf.

Posted at 2:20PM on Dec 5th 2008 by Ms_Tell_It_Like_It_Is

10. Are you kidding me?!?! Joe Satriani a guitar geek? TMZ needs to go to rock school!

Posted at 2:22PM on Dec 5th 2008 by stacym

11. Some guitar geek??!! WTF, TMZ! I'll pretend I didn't read that. Coldplay is over-rated much like Nickelback. I have been saying all along this song is a rip-off of Satriani. so tanks for posting proof. At least your "editors" got something right.

Posted at 2:25PM on Dec 5th 2008 by annette

12. Coldplay is a lousy band if you ask me.

Posted at 2:26PM on Dec 5th 2008 by Janie

13. #5 is tone-deaf. It's almost identical!

Posted at 2:27PM on Dec 5th 2008 by Edward

14. They should pay this man his royalties. He deserves them. Ripoff artists!

Posted at 2:28PM on Dec 5th 2008 by Wendy

15. Good artists borrow, great artists steal. Is it just me or is that band Coldplayed out? I used to like them but their music is getting redundant. Guess that explains their need to borrow/steal from J.S.

Posted at 2:37PM on Dec 5th 2008 by binkitybonkity

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