Fact #168649
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The Doors' new single, Hello, I Love You, enters the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA, destined for the No1 slot, but many critics note a remarkable similarity to The Kinks' hit All Day And All Of The Night.
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Dave Davies (The Kinks] : It was so outrageously obvious and our music publishers wanted to sue them and we saw lawyers, but Ray and I decided it was a silly idea. Funny, I met someone in L.A. who has access to some early Doors' tapes and he says they did a version of Hello, I Love You with heavy guitar in it, and they must have realised it was too blatant a rip-off so they did it again with a more keyboard-orientated feel.
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Ray Davies : The funniest thing was when my publisher came to me on tour and said The Doors had used the riff for 'All Day And All Of The Night' for 'Hello, I Love You.' I said rather than sue them, can't we just get them to own up? My publisher said, 'They have, that's why we should sue them!'
Source : Mojo magazine interview)
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Ray Davies : The funniest thing was when my publisher came to me on tour and said The Doors had used the riff for 'All Day And All Of The Night' for 'Hello, I Love You.' I said rather than sue them, can't we just get them to own up? My publisher said, 'They have, that's why we should sue them!'
Source : Mojo magazine interview)