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Red Hot Chili Peppers Accused In Plagiarism

According to a recent Drowned In Sound report, a US radio presenter has accused the Red Hot Chili Peppers of plagiarism, claiming that the band's "Dani California" single is near identical to Tom Petty's "Mary Jane's Last Dance".

Dan Gaffney, of Delaware-based WGMD, told his listeners of the similarities. Subsequently, the show's producer Jared Morris told reporters:


"The chord progression, the melody, the tempo, the key, the lyrical theme... they're identical."

To prove the point, Morris has posted an MP3 on his personal blog. Check it out at this location. Neither Petty nor the RHCP haven't commented yet.

As previously reported, Red Hot Chili Peppers sold 157,000 copies of their Warner Bros. double-disc "Stadium Arcadium," enough to lead teh Billboard 200 chart for a second week.



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Taylor Hicks became the new American Idol on Wednesday night, beating out Katherine McPhee to win the honor. While Hicks is the unlikely idol, there are some who think that the show got it wrong.

There are also some people who think that American Idol is ruining the music industry. Anthony Kiedis, singer for the Red Hot Chili Peppers who own the Number One album in the land for a second week in a row, said that he doesn't think that a TV contest makes much of a difference.

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"It hasn't come to that. That's just one little, weird, portion of it. There's a whole wide world of great music out there that's not on television. So I don't think of that as happening."

Red Hot Chili Peppers are set to hit the road May 30 in Barcelona, Spain. The first single from the album is "Dani California."