Berry famously threatened to sue the Beach Boys in 1963 for allegedly having plagiarized "Sweet Little Sixteen" for their smash hit "Surfin' U.S.A." Berry was eventually given co-writing credit on the song, and in 2015, Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys' leader, acknowledged in a Los Angeles Times interview: "I just took 'Sweet Little Sixteen' and rewrote it into something of our own."
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Chuck Berry
Mar 20, 2017, 5:21:38 AM
Mar 20, 2017, 12:56:41 PM
In reply to black
well Chuck borrowed this one from Peter Tosh
original version right here by the maestro Peter
not too many people know this, keep it under wraps
Mar 20, 2017, 1:23:52 PM
In reply to Curtis
Peter borrowed that too.
Mar 20, 2017, 1:42:19 PM
In reply to black
Greatest rock and roll artiste of all time. Wrote great great music
Mar 20, 2017, 2:27:29 PM
In reply to black
An icon. Truly one of the greats.
Mar 20, 2017, 3:30:11 PM
I am reminded of the fact that Elvis
Presley took Big Mama Thornton's
song
" YOU AINT NOTHING BUT
A HOUNDDOG "
and made a big Hit getting millions
of dollars ; I do not recall that
IElvis Presley ever acknowledging
that the song was written , and was
first sung by Big Mama Thornton.