Talk:Shake It Up (The Cars song)

Plagarism accusation
Does anybody remember, way back in the 80s, that some unknown songwriter claimed Ric Ocasek had flat-out plagarized this song from him? The guy claimed he had sent a tape of his (or his band), with the song on it, to the Cars's private studio, Syncro (many artists did, when the band was actively using Syncro, and some of them got the attention they needed) -- and next thing he knew, a facsimile of the song became the Cars's biggest hit to date. All I remember is reading about it in the newspaper in the 1980s; I've never come across any online mention of the accusation. Anyone?

I don't buy it for a second, by the way -- Ocasek is and was far too prolific and too talented to bother plagarizing.

--Ben Culture (talk) 04:26, 27 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Here's a link to the Billboard article on the resolution of the case: . Piriczki (talk) 14:38, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

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