I am no music engineer or virtuoso but the song ‘Viva la Vida’ written and performed by Coldplay is no coincidence. The two songs are just too close in melody as proven by this video here.
Coldplay statement:
“With the greatest possible respect to Joe Satriani, we have now unfortunately found it necessary to respond publicly to his allegations,” the note reads. “If there are any similarities between our two pieces of music, they are entirely coincidental, and just as surprising to us as to him. Joe Satriani is a great musician, but he did not write the song ‘Viva la Vida.’ We respectfully ask him to accept our assurances of this and wish him well with all future endeavors.”
You can read the statement from the Coldplay web site here.
The response from Coldplay came a day after an interview with Satriani was posted by Music Radar, in which the guitarist said the first time he heard the title track to the band’s album, he felt like “a dagger went right through my heart. It hurt so much. The second I heard it, I knew it was [my own] ‘If I Could Fly’.”
Satriani told the magazine that his inbox was flooded in June with e-mails from fans who also thought the then-just-released Coldplay single was eerily familiar to his instrumental, recorded in 2003 as a tribute to Satriani’s wife, Rubina.
