NEWS: Joe Satriani Accuses Coldplay of Stealing

This week Joe Satriani filed suit against Coldplay, claiming that their title song “Viva La Vida” was plagiarized from an instrumental he composed in 2004, entitled “If I could Fly.”

Nominated for two Grammy awards and one of the most popular songs this year, Coldplay’s tune appears on the album Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends with credits to the four band members: Chris Martin, Guy Berryman, Johnny Buckland and Will Champion. Listen to the two tracks, and decide for yourselves whether Joe Satriani is right or not: