im only sleeping 💤

oh man lmao yeah that's a wild one. it was settled as "subconscious plagiarism" which honestly I'd buy bc like. it's not crazy to think that you'd hear a song and years later think you came up with the tune. there's a reason paul was obsessively playing "yesterday" for everyone to make sure he didn't accidentally steal it- it seems like something that happens frequently. or there was another time ringo thought he came up with a song but it wound up being a bob dylan song lmfao. and of course john's case over "come together". it's not exclusive to george or even the beatles or even white male musicians (although there's certainly smth to be said about how many white male musicians do this shit on purpose) but seems more like the product of constant exposure to music and no one checking them well enough because they're the beatles.

but basically the melody is identical to "he's so fine" by the chiffons & he wound up having to pay $1,599,987 to bright tunes for subconscious plagiarism which he didn't deny as a possibility

one of his quotes on it:

“I wasn’t consciously aware of the similarity when I wrote the song,” Harrison said. “But once it started to get a lot of airplay, people started talking about it, and it was then I thought, ‘Why didn’t I realize?’ It would have been very easy to change a note here or there and not affect the feeling of the record.”

aaaand another where he's a little less charitable lmfao:

“It’s always been in escrow. As far as I’m concerned, the effect the song has had far exceeds any bitching between copyright people and their greed and jealousy.”