So Did Coldplay Really Steal From The Creaky Boards and Joe Satriani?

You've probably heard the news by now- that Coldplay's massive iTunes hit, "Viva La Vida" might have been ripped off from the work of some more obscure band.

They're called The Creaky Boards, and this Brooklyn-based rock band have put up a video on YouTube- a side-by-side comparison of their song- which was written more than a year before "Viva La Vida" came out- with Coldplay's hit single. The irony of it? The title of the Creaky Boards song is... "The Songs I Didn't Write."

Anyway, you be the judge, check out the video comparison for yourself:



Okay, so maybe it's hard to tell for sure, but here comes another claim that the same song- "Viva La Vida" might have come from another piece of work- this time from Joe Satriani's "If I Could Fly". Listen closely and take a look at this video:

Now even the tempo seems to match. But can we really be so sure?

According to the news story from AoL music,

The YouTube "my tiny band's song and your big song side-by-side" defense has been a recurring event lately. Avril Lavigne was the first major act to get the treatment on YouTube, as her hit 'Girlfriend' was supposedly stolen from The Rubinoos' 'I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend.' Since Lavigne, Miley Cyrus and Jessica Simpson both faced the same critiques.

So what do you think?

Cheers, everyone!