Does the Garbage song “Special” rip off the Pretenders?
Not really, since it was done as a tribute. Shirley Manson of Garbage explains: “The point being that our lawyers started getting really freaked out about some of the things we were doing on the record. For instance, on one of the songs called ‘Special,’ I took a line out of Chrissie Hynde’s ‘Talk of the Town,’ and it was meant as an homage to her, because the song itself is a little Beatlesque and Pretendersy. I just thought it was a nod to her. But our lawyers were like, ‘You have to take it out. You’re going to get sued. They’ll come after you for hundreds of thousands of dollars. It has to come out.’ And I was like, ‘I’m not, I want it in there!’ So I called her up and she took our call immediately and she was like, ‘Are you kidding? I want it in there. That’s fantastic!’ So the next day, we came into the studio and there was this fax from her lying on our desks, and it said, ‘I, Chrissie Hynde, do hereby allow Garbage, the rock band, to sample any of my sounds, my voice, or indeed
Not really, since it was done as a tribute. Shirley Manson of Garbage explains: “The point being that our lawyers started getting really freaked out about some of the things we were doing on the record. For instance, on one of the songs called ‘Special,’ I took a line out of Chrissie Hynde’s ‘Talk of the Town,’ and it was meant as an homage to her, because the song itself is a little Beatlesque and Pretendersy. I just thought it was a nod to her. But our lawyers were like, ‘You have to take it out. You’re going to get sued. They’ll come after you for hundreds of thousands of dollars. It has to come out.’ And I was like, ‘I’m not, I want it in there!’ So I called her up and she took our call immediately and she was like, ‘Are you kidding? I want it in there. That’s fantastic!’ So the next day, we came into the studio and there was this fax from her lying on our desks, and it said, ‘I, Chrissie Hynde, do hereby allow Garbage, the rock band, to sample any of my sounds, my voice, or indeed
