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Message: [QUOTE="bags27, post: 2243021, member: 6761"] Of course, the big news in property theft is Bob's "borrowing" for lyrics, for [I]Chronicles I[/I], and now, amazingly enough (but what's really ever amazing when it comes to Dylan?), his Nobel acceptance speech. And yet, Dylan successfully sued Rod Stewart for ripping off his "Forever Young." These are lyrics, not melodies. For melodies, so much of Bernstein's [I]West Side Story[/I] comes from other classical music ("There's a Place for Us" comes from Beethoven's 4th (or is it the 5th?--can't remember) piano concerto; some Bella Bartok, IIRC, etc), not to mention that to his dying day Bernstein actually denied the plot of [I]WSS[/I] was based on [I]Romeo and Juliet[/I]!!!. I spotted the Nino Rota theme from [I]Godfather[/I] in Verdi, etc. [/QUOTE]