Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?
Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?
#1Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?
Posted: 8/13/08 at 2:25pm
I'm serious, actually.
So I bought "The Woman in White" CD and was listening to it, and I couldn't help but notice that the tune to the "Lammastide" number in the first act sounded very very familar, so I replayed it, started humming along and the chorus "Sing! For it's Lammastide!" is familiar, eerily familiar to "Hey Macarana! *chomp*"
Please tell me I'm not the only one who thinks this.
#2re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?
Posted: 8/13/08 at 2:29pm
First, Puccini, now the Macarena.
What's next? Mambo #5?
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#2re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?
Posted: 8/13/08 at 2:34pm
Listen to "Music of the Night"
Then sing the song:
School days, school days
good old fashioned rule days
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#3re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?
Posted: 8/13/08 at 2:35pmI am pretty sure that The Thong Song is next.
"If you try to shag my husband while I am still alive, I will shove the art of motorcycle maintenance up your rancid little Cu**. That's a good dear"
Tom Stoppard's Rock N Roll
fvalle24
Stand-by Joined: 7/11/08
#4re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?
Posted: 8/13/08 at 2:36pmAlso, didn't he bite off Pink Floyd's "Echoes"?
#5re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?
Posted: 8/13/08 at 2:41pm
Wow.
Just wow.
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES---
"THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#6re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?
Posted: 8/13/08 at 2:50pm
fvalle24,
The main theme of the Phantom overture was apparently ripped off from part of the song Echos by Floyd. I read an article about it where Roger Waters said that it was clear that Webber stole that bit of the overture (and of course the "Phantom Theme" we hear through out the show) from their song Echos. But, he said that life was too short to fight over something small like that.
"If you try to shag my husband while I am still alive, I will shove the art of motorcycle maintenance up your rancid little Cu**. That's a good dear"
Tom Stoppard's Rock N Roll
fvalle24
Stand-by Joined: 7/11/08
#7re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?
Posted: 8/13/08 at 2:55pm
Winston89,
I read that too! I didn't believe it at first, but then I listened to the song...and it's there. I was somewhat disappointed, but not surprise.
#8re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?
Posted: 8/13/08 at 3:00pmI read someone making that Macarana comparrision before when the show opened on broadway. I hadn't picked it up till then, now that is all I hear when i hear that song. It has always been my lest favourite song in the whole score.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27199361@N08/ Phantom at the Royal Empire Theatre
Yero
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/29/06
#9re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?
Posted: 8/13/08 at 3:18pmWhat about the Batman theme in Jesus Christ Superstar?
"I have this mental image of Patti barreling down the street and pushing tourists out of her way." -colleen_lee
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#10re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?
Posted: 8/13/08 at 3:19pm
MOTN = Come to Me, Bend to Me from Brigadoon.
Masquerade = something from Turandot (Puccini, of course)
#11re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?
Posted: 8/13/08 at 4:06pmDid Webber even write "Lammastide"? Isn't it a classic song from the period?
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#12re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?
Posted: 8/13/08 at 4:44pmI did a few different google searches. I couldn't find any other version of Lammastide other then what Webber wrote.
"If you try to shag my husband while I am still alive, I will shove the art of motorcycle maintenance up your rancid little Cu**. That's a good dear"
Tom Stoppard's Rock N Roll
temms
Broadway Star Joined: 7/21/04
#13re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?
Posted: 8/13/08 at 5:16pm
This video (and it's meant to be tounge-in-cheek) highlights some of the most obvious "coincidences" in Lloyd Webber's work.
Andrew Lloyd Webber obituary
Cape Twirl of Doom
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#14re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?
Posted: 8/13/08 at 5:17pmI've thought the song sounded like "The Macarena" ever since I first saw the show.
"It's Phantom meets Hamlet... Phamlet!"
#15re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?
Posted: 8/13/08 at 6:36pmthis is slightly off topic, but I remember reading somewhere that the "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" can be found in several places in the score of Evita, sped up, slowed down and...possibly inverted? I know it's really common for composers to have motifs in their pieces [there are certainly a lot in Sweeney], but I thought the DCFMA was really interesting and almost...ridiculous.
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Smaxie
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#16re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?
Posted: 8/13/08 at 6:42pm
I just finished reading the thread and was greeted by this banner ad.
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#17re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?
Posted: 8/13/08 at 6:46pmI really hate this google ads thing.
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philly03
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#18re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?
Posted: 8/13/08 at 11:38pm
LOL OP you got that off of a review from NY1 I bet...that's where I first found out about it & realized it sounds similar!
And "Lammastide" is a old-time Holiday (I believe in England, correct me if I'm wrong), about the new season (which the song describes).
Who cares I still love WiW!
BroadwayPenguin2
Stand-by Joined: 12/29/06
#19re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?
Posted: 8/14/08 at 1:41am
A better quality video of the obituary
Updated On: 8/14/08 at 01:41 AM
Hrududu
Chorus Member Joined: 6/13/07
#20re: Lloyd Webber Ripping Of The Macarana?
Posted: 8/14/08 at 6:53amThere is a part in the Whistle Down the Wind overture that is a total rip off of the Jurassic Park theme.
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